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    Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center...
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    med or "Song of Mead" (Cân y medd). The legendary drinking, feasting, and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Din Eidyn (modern-day...
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    on display. After Mead's death in 1978, the hall reopened in December 1984 as the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples. The new hall, designed by Eugene...
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  • Mead Hall Episcopal School is a private, 3K–12 coeducational college preparatory school located over two campuses in Aiken, South Carolina. Previously...
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    architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where...
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    night from the mead hall of Heorot built by King Hroðgar. Unable to bear it any more, he attacks Heorot. Grendel continues to attack the Hall every night...
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    the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by the monster Grendel for twelve years....
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    hjort, all meaning "deer". Heorot is given as the name of Hrothgar's mead hall in the Old English epic Beowulf. Historically, hart has also been used...
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    mead hall is described as a quadrilateral structure of wood with a raised platform on either side within. In the center on one side of the mead-hall,...
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  • Hall Mead School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Cranham area of the London Borough of Havering, England. Simon London...
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    Meduseld, the Golden Hall of the Kings of Rohan, is in the centre of the town at the top of the hill. "Meduseld", Old English for "mead hall", is meant to be...
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    Heorot (Old English 'hart, stag') is a mead-hall and major point of focus in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The hall serves as a seat of rule for King Hrothgar...
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    mead halls" of the day once stood. Excavating years later at one of these sites, Aska [sv], Rundkvist uncovered the foundations of a large mead hall,...
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    Round Table. Manor house Tapestry Mead hall Moot hall Hall and parlor house Great room Michael Thompson, The Medieval Hall (Aldershot, 1995), pp. 101-3, 120...
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    Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass...
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    Remembrance Day celebration service at the Royal Albert Hall. After studying at performing arts college, Mead gained his first professional stage experience in...
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    the trolls of the Swedish folk tradition to Grendel, the supernatural mead hall invader in the Old English poem Beowulf, and notes that "just as the poem...
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  • attacked and killed many of Hrothgar's warriors during a celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Upon arriving, Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar's wife Queen...
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    Moot Hall, Mansfield Moot Hall, St Albans Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead Moot Hall, Wirksworth Kgotla Mead hall Meeting house Thing (assembly) Witenagemot Webster's...
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  • and Gunnar depart for Brynhild's mead hall. King Gunnar's horse shies away at the sight of the fire at the mead hall. Through a spell cast by Grimhild...
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  • theological seminary. The estate's mansion would be renamed "Mead Hall" in honor of Drew's wife, Roxanna Mead. Drew's academic buildings feature a mix of Greek Revival...
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  • Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf kills him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then...
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    poet, delivering an abridged version of the tale while standing around a mead hall hearth and rendering selected passages in the poem's original Old English...
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    seen, Shippey argues, in the comparison between the mead hall of Meduseld in Rohan, and the great hall of Minas Tirith in Gondor. Meduseld is simple, but...
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    according to Bauschatz was always conducted indoors, usually in a chieftain's mead hall. Symbel involved a formulaic ritual that was more solemn and serious than...
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  • thoughtful and contemplative character and a rampaging monster who attacks the mead hall of an early Danish kingdom, biting the head off of one would-be defender...
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    Meadery (category Mead)
    meadery produces various styles of meads, such as fruit meads, traditional meads, session meads, and braggots (mead-beer hybrids). Meaderies are becoming...
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    McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm based in New York City. The firm came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals...
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    (ed.). English Language Reader: Introductory Essays and Exercises. Dodd, Mead. [T]he pages of history have been filled with accounts of various Germanic...
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    Longhouse (redirect from Viking hall)
    to the east and north. The Scandinavian or Viking Langhus/Långhus and mead hall. Further developments of the Germanic longhouse during the Middle Ages...
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