- A
drinking horn is the
horn of a
bovid used as a cup.
Drinking horns are
known from
classical Antiquity,
especially the Balkans, and
remained in use for...
- 19th-century
drinking horn.
Originally from the Kuba Kingdom, the
drinking horn is made out of wood, iron, and
copper alloy.
Drinking horns were usually...
- Avsalon's
Drinking Horn,
named for
Bishop Absalon because of an
incorrect tradition that he was its
first owner, is a 72 cm long 14th-century
drinking horn, with...
- images. It is
uncertain whether the
horns were
intended as
drinking horns, or as
blowing horns,
although drinking horns have more
pronounced history as luxury...
-
Still Life with Lobster,
Drinking Horn and Gl****es is a 1653
painting by
Dutch artist Willem Kalf. The
painting is a
still life, and has been referred...
- the
valkyries Hrist ("shaker") and Mist ("cloud")
would "bear him a [
drinking]
horn", then
provides a list of 11 more
valkyries who he says "bear ale to...
-
either for
pouring libations, or as a way of
drinking.
Others did not, and were
merely used as
drinking cups, with the characteristic,
shared by many...
-
culture a
particular drinking from a cup or
drinking horn on
ceremonial occasions,
often involving the
swearing of
oaths when the cup or
horn was
drunk by a...
-
freeing his
kingdom from the monster,
Hrothgar gives Beowulf his
golden drinking horn,
which commemorates Hrothgar's
victory over the
mighty dragon Fafnir...
-
shape of a
natural horn was also the
model for the rhyton, a
horn-shaped
drinking vessel.
Powder horns were
originally bovid horns ****ed with lids and...
