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ring-hall

ring-hall noun: an Anglo-Saxon mead hall.

Noun

ring-hall (plural ring-halls)

  1. (literary, kenning) An Anglo-Saxon mead hall.
    • the joy of halls to the men
      and hoarded treasure,
      the bright ring-halls,
      and for himself a ship
      on the sea-shore
      would seek.1843, J.M. Kemble, The Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, London: Æfric Society, page 96
    • Heorot is cleansed, the bright ringhall[.]1983, Constance Hieatt, Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, New York: Bantam, page 34

Forms of ring-hall

pluralring-halls

Origin of ring-hall

Calque of Old English hringsele, from hring (“ring”) + sele (“hall”).

Questions about ring-hall

What does ring-hall mean?
Ring-hall means an Anglo-Saxon mead hall.
What part of speech is ring-hall?
Ring-hall is a noun.
What is the plural of ring-hall?
The plural of ring-hall is ring-halls.

Words near ring-hall in the dictionary

  1. ring-fingernails
  2. ring-fingers
  3. ring-giver
  4. ring-givers
  5. ring-giving
  6. ring-hall
  7. ring-halls
  8. ring-hoard
  9. ring-hoards
  10. ring-in
  11. ring-ins

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