Reply To: 6×13: Title "Ill-Boding Patterns"

Well, a quick google check leads to a page on Beowulf about a sword called Hrunting or something.

Beowulf is described receiving the sword in lines 1455-1458:

“And another item lent by Unferth
at that moment of need was of no small importance:
the brehon handed him a hilted weapon,
a rare and ancient sword named Hrunting.
The iron blade with its ill-boding patterns
had been tempered in blood. It had never failed
the hand of anyone who hefted it in battle,
anyone who had fought and faced the worst
in the gap of danger. This was not the first time
it had been called to perform heroic feats
However, although the sword possessed great power and was claimed to have never failed anyone who used it, when Beowulf descended to the bottom of the lake to fight Grendel’s mother, the sword proved ineffective. As the “fabulous powers of that heirloom failed,” Beowulf was forced to discard it.

So it could be a magical sword. Or maybe even referring to Rump’s dagger for all we know, which is Excalibur after all. Maybe the one Emma uses against the cloaked figure in her vision, or the sword the figure is using against her.