the sword, and eventually the modern term accolade stuck to it.

Accolade ceremonies have taken a variety of forms, including the tapping of the flat side of a knighting sword on the shoulders of a candidate (who is himself sometimes referred to as an accolade during the ceremony) or an embrace about the neck.

The earliest reference to the knighting as a formal ceremony in Germany is in the Annals of Aachen under

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