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1878, The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society, Great Britain: Royal Numismatic Society:
It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
1970, William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England:
[...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.
Þā cwæþ Iūdas, "Hwæt wilt þū tō underwedde niman?" Þā cwæþ hēo, "Þīnne hring and þīnne bēag and þīnne stæf þe þū on handa hæfst."
Judah asked, "What do you want to take as a pledge?" She said, "Your ring and your armlet and your staff that you have in your hand."
Usage notes
Since Proto-Germanic times, different kinds of bēag were often disambiguated with compounds: earmbēag(“armlet”), hēafodbēag(“crown”), swēorbēag(“collar”). *Fingerbēag is not attested and may not have existed, perhaps because hring was already a specific word for "ring."
During the 10th century, cynehelm begins to become the normal word for "crown."