mead hall

English

Noun

mead hall (plural mead halls)

  1. Nordic king's structure, center of the community, a place for feasting, with ample brewed beverages (mead).
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 18:
      I have [...] stopped on my way home at the mead halls of the Franks across the sea.
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