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tikii Member |
posted 09-08-2002 09:53 AM
  
hi to anyone who reads this...i am having trouble finding pics of a mead hall... can you help?... or do you have any idea what it might look like? |
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Peter Member |
posted 09-09-2002 04:13 PM
Mead Hall !!! I haven't the foggiest idea what a Mead Hall is. If there is such a thing, it will be a modern idea. Mead is an old drink, and it would be drunk wherever. Tavern, castle, manor-house etc. Nearby Ruthin Castle has its Mead Evenings like many other places nowdays. They are held in the old hall, but it is all a tourist gimic. |
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duncan Senior Member |
posted 09-09-2002 04:33 PM
Could it be the German Beer Hall your thinking of? A tavern or pub by any other name, still serves the same.  Castle Duncans Forums [This message has been edited by duncan (edited 09-09-2002).] |
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Levan Moderator |
posted 09-10-2002 07:07 AM
I believe the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings erected buildings that they called Mead Halls - these were sometimes built to commemorate victories. Mead Halls were communal meeting halls in the centre of their villages. There is a town called Lavenham in Suffolk, which has the only remaining Anglo Saxon mead hall in Britain (although my source is merely a nomination on the BBC for it to be nominated a heritage site - I've not seen it myself). Here's a picture of a recontruction of the more usual timber mead halls at Holgate Village:
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duncan Senior Member |
posted 09-10-2002 07:48 AM
Are they really sure about this ?!? Looks like it is supposed to be a long hall of the Viking era but the interior and exterior has problems. |
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Levan Moderator |
posted 09-10-2002 12:15 PM
I've assumed that both reconstructions are rather fanciful. There is some wonderful computerised reconstruction material associated with recent excavations, which was shown on Tony Robinson's Time Team series on British Television. At least they had the honsesty to say that they were speculating over different aspects of the reconstruction. Here're some more: Wichamstow: Glasgow University links/archives:
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