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Bibliography

Enright, Michael J., Lady with a mead cup: ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996.

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Citation details
Work
Lady with a mead cup: ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age
Place
Dublin
Publisher
Four Courts Press
Year
1996
Subjects and topics
Abbreviations; Preface
[I] “Ritual, group cohesion and hierarchy in the Germanic warband”
1–37
[II] “Warlords, Hetzerinnen and sibyls”
38–68
[III] “The liquor ritual and the basis of the lordly power to command followers”
69–96
[IV] “The archaeology of intoxication and the continuity of Transalpine history.”
Sections:
1. From Lubsow to the Vikings;
2. From Hochdorf to the Gaels;
3. Aspects of continuity and oral culture
97–168
[V] “Warband religion and the Celtic world”
Sections:
1. Druids, female magic and weaving beams;
2. Wealhtheow;
3. The Celto-Germanic warband and the rise of the warlord;
4. Governmental forms;
5. Mercury, Wodan and the one-eyed warlord;
6. Rosmerta and Veleda;
7. Mercury, Rosmerta and a concept of Rhineland kingship;
8. The inauguration of the warlord
169–282
[VI] “Conclusion”
283–287
Bibliography; index
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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August 2013, last updated: September 2021