Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton.

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one man another Hrothgar Beowulf, and bade him hail, gave him command of the wine-hall.” * * * * 1 “ He strode under the clouds, until he the wine-house, the golden hall of men, most readily perceiv’d, richly variegated.” The mead-hall seems to have answered the purpose of a common hall, as we see by the following. Speak- ing of Hrothgar, the poet says :— 2 “It ran through his mind that he a hall-house would command, a great mead-house, men to make, which the sons of men should ever hear of; and there within all distribute to young and old, as to him God had given, except the people’s share, and the lives of men. Then I heard that widely the work was proclaim’d to many a tribe through this mid-earth that a public place was building. Mead was considered a glorified liquor fit for Men and is thus sung of by the bard Taliesin :—