Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking AgeLady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutional and religious significance. Medievalists are familiar with the image of a queen offering a drink to a king or chieftain and to his retainers, the Wealhtheow scene in Beowulf being perhaps the most famous instance. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology and philology, as well as medieval history, Professor Enright has produced the first work in English on the warband and on the significance of barbarian drinking rituals. Lady with a Mead Cup will be of interest to students of Germanic or Celtic culture and kingship, anthropology and Dark Age religion. |
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Page 156
... Irish equiva- lents of druid , poet and bard except to say that the large body of Irish material on the druids is untrustworthy . " That is true in some cases but false in others . The Irish monks who wrote down much of this material ...
... Irish equiva- lents of druid , poet and bard except to say that the large body of Irish material on the druids is untrustworthy . " That is true in some cases but false in others . The Irish monks who wrote down much of this material ...
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... Irish church sought to accommodate , and succeeded in accommodating , a great deal of traditional vernacular learning and associated attitudes which , on the continent , would have seemed highly exotic and redolent of paganism . 26 Of ...
... Irish church sought to accommodate , and succeeded in accommodating , a great deal of traditional vernacular learning and associated attitudes which , on the continent , would have seemed highly exotic and redolent of paganism . 26 Of ...
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... Irish literature from the seventh century onwards is replete with examples of magical contests and flytings between ... Irish monks also seem to have derived from the traditions of the filid . It is otherwise difficult to account ...
... Irish literature from the seventh century onwards is replete with examples of magical contests and flytings between ... Irish monks also seem to have derived from the traditions of the filid . It is otherwise difficult to account ...
Contents
Ritual Group Cohesion and Hierarchy in the Germanic Warband | 1 |
Warlords Hetzerinnen and Sibyls | 38 |
The Liquor Ritual and the Basis of the Lordly Power to Command | 69 |
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