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The wunkirmian is owned by the wunkirle, who is considered the "most hospitable woman" of her village quarter. Traditionally, she chooses her own successor. Curator Barbara C. Johnson describes the role of the feast ladle in a Dan feast: "At feast times [the wunkirle] marches with her spoon at the head of the line of women from her quarter.
Symbel and sumbl are Germanic terms for "feast, banquet".. Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (lines 489–675 and 1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line 15), Old Saxon Heliand (line 3339), and the Old Norse Lokasenna (stanza 8) as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or ...
In these texts Danel in mentioned as one who invites the Rephaim, divine beings of the underworld, to a feast during the late summer fuit harvest, reminiscent of the biblical festival of booths. [7] Danel's title in the text of Rephaim is "the man of Rapau", while Rapau is identified in another Ugaritic text as a god and king of Ashtaroth and ...
Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.The events are set in motion by beings who appear to be ancient Greek gods.Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction"; it relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare as well as references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or ...
A wedding feast The Cena or Coena Cypriani (i.e. "Feast of Cyprian") is an anonymous prose work written in Latin. [ 1 ] Tradition ascribes original authorship to the 3rd-century saint Cyprian , bishop of Carthage , but the text was probably written around 400.
According to John J. Collins, Belshazzar's feast is a legend conforming to the subgenre of the "tale of court contest", complicated by the inclusion of Daniel's indictment of Belshazzar's pride and his failure to honour the God of Israel. As a result, the tale has a double ending, in which Daniel is first showered with rewards and honours for ...
þis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate / ywrite an englis of his oȝene hand. þet hatte: Ayenbyte of inwyt. This book is [the work of] don Michael of Northgate, written in English in his own hand, that is called: Remorse of Conscience.
Daniel is episodic rather than linear: it has no plot as such. It does, however, have a structure. Chapters 2–7 form a chiasm, a literary figure in which elements mirror each other: chapter 2 is the counterpart of chapter 7, chapter 3 of chapter 6, and chapter 4 of chapter 5, with the second member of each pair advancing the first in some way.