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firm, and swift repairs made the interior habitable. Tapestries
were hung on the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
[2] From its formal use in other places, this phrase, to take cup
in hall, or "on the floor," would seem to mean that Beowulf
stood up to receive his gifts, drink to the donor, and say
thanks. [3] Kenning for sword. [4] Hrothgar. He is also the
"refuge of the friends of Ing," below. Ing belongs to myth. [5]
Horses are frequently led or ridden into the hall where folk sit
at banquet: so in Chaucer's Squire's tale, in the ballad of King
Estmere, and in the romances.
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