Coming Swoon... Golden Plunder: Mead & Bees in the Exeter Book Riddles
A TBH essaylette on Riddles, Mead in the Heroic Imaginary
The central scene of the heroic Germanic imaginary is the feast & its setting is the long hall. In story after story, warlords celebrate their power & their victories with their company of warriors, laying out a bill of fare including gifts, songs, praise, vaunts, and booze. Often these accounts are quite extensive, spilling out over many lines, as profligate & expansive as that lord’s generosity is said to be. In Beowulf for example…
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Oo, oo – I gotta bees story.