Symbel
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Symbel and sumbl are Germanic terms for "feast, banquet".
A drinking scene on an image stone from Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm
At the funeral feast of Harald Bluetooth, Jarl Sigvaldi swears an oath on his father's memory to go to Norway and kill or drive away Haakon Jarl.
Drinking horn
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A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid or antler of an ungulate used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from classical antiquity, especially the Balkans. They remained in use for ceremonia
Symbel
…a formulaic ritual that was more solemn and serious than mere drinking or celebration. The primary elements of symbel are drinking ale or mead from a drinking horn, speech making (which often included formulaic boasting and oaths) and gift giving. Eating and feasting were specifically excluded from symbel, and no…
The Roordahuizum drinking horn, made in the mid-16th century by silversmith Albert Jacobs Canter, kept in the Frisian Museum at Leeuwarden
Drinking horn with silver-gilt mounts (detail), Northern German or Scandinavian, late 15th century, The Hunt Museum
Collection of drawings of Scythian stelae of the 6th to 5th centuries BC. Many of them depict warriors holding a drinking horn in their right hand.
The Hochdorf drinking horn (iron with sheet gold ornaments, capacity 5.5 litres)