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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A funeral feast; a wake: with reference to ancient Scandinavian customs. See ale, 2.
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“Tolkien once described "Beowulf" - and by extension much of Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, poetry - as "a drink dark and bitter: a solemn funeral-ale with the taste of death.”
The Washington Post: 'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation
“It was at old "Father Bluetooth's funeral-ale" (drunken burial-feast), that Svein, carousing with his Jomsburg chiefs and other choice spirits, generally of the robber class, all risen into height of highest robber enthusiasm, pledged the vow to one another; Svein that he would conquer”
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