- A
drinking horn is the
horn of a
bovid used as a
drinking vessel.
Drinking horns are
known from
classical Antiquity,
especially the Balkans, and remained...
- 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...
-
Latin cornu (
horn) and
copia (abundance), also
called the
horn of plenty, was a
symbol of
abundance and nourishment,
commonly a
large horn-shaped container...
-
religions of the
ancient Near East. Its
horns were used in
votive offerings, as
trophies and
drinking horns. Two
aurochs domestication events occurred...
-
freeing his
kingdom from the monster,
Hrothgar gives Beowulf his
golden drinking horn,
which commemorates Hrothgar's
victory over the
mighty dragon Fafnir...
- that region.
Similar in form to, and
perhaps originating from, the
drinking horn, it has been
widespread over
Eurasia since prehistoric times. Liddell...