mead-hall

So bank is an English word of mixed heritage, a fusion of native mead-hall Germanic and imported pasta alla Italiana, an heirloom received from both sides of the family.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

So bank is an English word of mixed heritage, a fusion of native mead-hall Germanic and imported pasta alla Italiana, an heirloom received from both sides of the family.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

A few sides, and then I must prepare for the feast in my mead-hall:

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

In this book, the familiar song loses its mead-hall joviality and gains mystical power, with the "nine ladies dancing" moving by starlight through a magical bower of topiary and the "eleven pipers piping" appearing in the shape of the angelic host, blowing upon delicate trumpets.

Pipers Piping, Drummers Drumming Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

He imagines his lord embracing him — and lays hands and head in the lap of his king, as once long ago he took comfort from joy in the mead-hall.

Archive 2008-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

In "Beowulf," the Old English epic heroic poem, the great mead-hall Heorot is the scene of most of the action.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

In "Beowulf," the Old English epic heroic poem, the great mead-hall Heorot is the scene of most of the action.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

He imagines his lord embracing him — and lays hands and head in the lap of his king, as once long ago he took comfort from joy in the mead-hall.

Thinking About: Translation Mary Kate Hurley 2008

When the poet pictures the ruins as the remains of a mead-hall, I'd say he's meditating on the transience of human life and human works, rather like Bede's sparrow story.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

Mead and the mead-hall had a deeper significance than the fuel and location for a party; they symbolised order, prosperity, society.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009