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 157
... druid often mentioned in the Ulster cycle , is depicted as teaching young noblemen , one hundred in one instance and eight in another . " In all three of these related cultures the druids possessed great authority and acted as judges of ...
... druid often mentioned in the Ulster cycle , is depicted as teaching young noblemen , one hundred in one instance and eight in another . " In all three of these related cultures the druids possessed great authority and acted as judges of ...
Page 177
... druids and filid often took orders from the warlord . They were not necessarily subservient but the pivotal facts ... druids of the court . " On the other hand , the early high status of the druid is reflected in the not infrequent ...
... druids and filid often took orders from the warlord . They were not necessarily subservient but the pivotal facts ... druids of the court . " On the other hand , the early high status of the druid is reflected in the not infrequent ...
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... druids and poets of the Treveri whose status and mode of worship had been under attack since the age of Augustus . " 80 In AD 69 these druids seem to have been busy spreading the already mentioned prophecy of Rome's imminent demise ...
... druids and poets of the Treveri whose status and mode of worship had been under attack since the age of Augustus . " 80 In AD 69 these druids seem to have been busy spreading the already mentioned prophecy of Rome's imminent demise ...
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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