Brewer's: Ron

or Rone. The name of Prince Arthur's spear, made of ebony.

“His spere he nom [took] an honde tha Ron was thaten [called].”

Layamon: Brut (twelfth century).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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