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  2. Drinking horn - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf (493ff.) describes the serving of mead in carved horns. Horn fragments of Viking Age drinking horns are only rarely preserved, showing that both cattle and goat horns were in use, but the number of decorative metal horn terminals and horn mounts recovered archaeologically show that the drinking horn was much more widespread than the ...

  3. Útgarða-Loki - Wikipedia

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    At the entrance to the castle is a shut gate, and Thor finds that he cannot open it. Struggling, all four squeeze through the bars of the gate, and continue to a large hall. Inside the great hall are two benches, where many generally large people sit on two benches. The four see Útgarða-Loki, the king of the castle, sitting. [3]

  4. Category:Drinking horns - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to drinking horns, the horns of bovids used as drinking vessels.Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus.

  5. Lokrur - Wikipedia

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    Thor now wants to compete in drinking, and Útgarða-Loki has a horn carried into the hall (v. 28-30). Útgarða-Loki says that the custom is to empty the horn in one go, but Thor drinks from it three times with little success (v. 31-36). Útgarða-Loki then asks Thor to lift his cat from the ground, but despite great effort, Thor can only get ...

  6. Galloway Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The Galloway Hoard, now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, is a hoard of more than 100 gold, silver, glass, crystal, stone, and earthenware objects from the Viking Age, discovered in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, in September 2014.

  7. Golden Horns of Gallehus - Wikipedia

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    The horns were found in 1639 and in 1734, respectively, at locations only some 15–20 metres apart. [1] They were composed of segments of double sheet gold. The two horns were found incomplete; the longer one found in 1639 had seven segments with ornaments, to which six plain segments and a plain rim were added, possibly by the 17th-century ...

  8. Gjallarhorn - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse: [ˈɡjɑlːɑrˌhorn]; "hollering horn" [1] or "the loud sounding horn" [2]) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. The sound of Heimdallr 's horn will herald the beginning of Ragnarök , the sound of which will be heard in all corners of the world.

  9. Mazer (drinking vessel) - Wikipedia

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    Both the wood and the vessels made of it were known as "mazer", so in contemporary accounts sometimes they are referred to as ciphis de mazer (drinking bowl of burr maple wood), and sometimes simply as a "mazer". The best mazers had silver or silver gilt rims added. Commonly prints were also added (a decorated disc in the base of the bowl), and ...

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