mead

• “_Now up the mead, now down the mead_," and then over hill and dale they sped.”

  Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

• ““Beowulf” was first committed to parchment around the year 1000, up to then it had only existed as a oral poem recited to friends, families and subjects over fires, in mead halls, and by bards to many people.”

  “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Translated by Simon Armitage (Norton, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog

• “If we create a dystopia, it is so that our heroes can set it to rights, and drink mead from the skull of the vanquished oppressor.”

  The Neopulp Manifesto (Draft)

• ““No matter,” said the old man, who was deep in his cups, having drunk the liquor of the region — a vile substance they call mead, yet it is potent — “you are still a brave man to face the wendol.””

  Eaters Of The Dead

• “A by product of honey, called mead, is reported to be the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man.”

  Alcohol Abuse and Economic Downturns

• “Personally, I'll stay with mead, which is honeywine.”

  The Only Illegal Liquor in the US

• “Germany and the Slavic countries were leading producers in the meantime, and honey wine or mead from the Sanskrit word for “honey” was a great favorite in both central Europe and Scandinavia.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The dreadful foul drink called mead is made from honey, then fermented.”

  Eaters Of The Dead

• “There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough.”

  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)

• “Our forefathers concocted from Honey boiled with water and exposed to the sun (after adding chopped raisins, lemon peel, and other matters) a famous fermented drink, called mead, and this was termed metheglin (_methu_, wine, and _aglaion_, splendid) when the finer [261] Honey was used, and certain herbs were added so as to confer special flavours.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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