drinking-horn
61Kottabos — Cottabus player, red figure kylix, ca. 510 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens. Kottabos (Ancient Greek: κότταβος) was a game of skill popular for a long time at ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 5th… …
62Caradoc — Vreichvras (more correctly in Welsh, Caradog Freichfras, meaning Caradoc Strong (or Stout) Arm) was a semi legendary ancestor to the kings of Gwent living during the 5th or 6th century. He is remembered in Arthurian legend as a Knight of the… …
63Cuisine of Iceland — Important parts of Icelandic cuisine are fish, being in an area where fish is plentiful, lamb and dairy. Popular foods in Iceland include skyr, hangikjöt (smoked lamb), kleinur, laufabrauð and bollur. Þorramatur is a traditional buffet served at… …
64Das Pfauenfest — is a singspiel in two acts by composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg. The opera has a German libretto by F. A. C. Werthes and premiered at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart on 24 February 1801. Synopsis The fairy Morgana wickedly conspires against Lenore;… …
65Skrymir — A king of the giants in Nordic myth. In the Prose Edda it is told how Thor, accompanied by Loki and Thialfi, after various misadventures arrived at Utgard to visit King Skrymir, who had the title of Utgard Loki, which may be taken to mean the… …
66Svantovit — A Slavonic god of the island of Rügen in the Baltic. Saxo Grammaticus states that he had four heads on four necks with a bow in the left hand and a drinking horn in the right. Close by, in the sanctuary, were a bridle and saddle destined for… …
67Beowulf (2007 film) — Infobox Film name = Beowulf caption = Theatrical release poster director = Robert Zemeckis producer = Steve Bing Robert Zemeckis writer = Neil Gaiman Roger Avary starring = Ray Winstone Anthony Hopkins Angelina Jolie Crispin Glover Robin Wright… …
68Gjallarhorn — In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse yelling horn Orchard (1997:56 57).] ) is the horn with which the gatekeeper god, Heimdallr, announces Ragnarök. In Gylfaginning , Gjallarhorn is also the name of a drinking horn used by the god Mímir… …
69Charon's obol — Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Charon s obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. According to …
70Death in Norse paganism — This image is usually interpreted as a Valkyrie who welcomes a dead man, or Odin himself, on the Tjängvide image stone from Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. Death in ancient Norse times was associated with… …
