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Quotes About Mead

But, in the end, it was none of these things, of course. It was only Hrothgar's claustrophobic mead hall with the monster waiting in the darkness without. We had our Grendel, to be sure. We even had our Hrothgar if one squints a bit at sad King Billy's poor slouched profile.
~ Dan Simmons
Revered as God's servants, the bees they lure provide mead and honey for the table and beeswax candles for church services, which is why many churches planted linden trees in their courtyards. The bee-church connection became so strong that once, at the turn of the fifteenth century, the villagers of Mazowsze passed a law condemning honey thieves and hive vandals
~ Diane Ackerman
mead for my men!
~ Donald Barthelme
Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.
~ John Keats
Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.
~ Unknown
Seek and destroy, hunt and find We will kill all their kind They will beg and they will plead As we drink their blood with mead
~ Nancy Holder
Mead produced grater miracles than all the prayers in the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
Mead was the key to good fellowship. A better gift, sometimes, than gold.
~ Nicola Griffith