单词 | braga-beaker |
释义 | braga-beakern. A cup from which a toast is drunk. Quots. 1847, 1851 show that some writers, mistaking the etymology, thought the word was connected with Bragi, the god of poetry in Norse mythology. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > vessel for drinking toasts or healths brendice1673 braga-beaker1839 1839 G. Stephens tr. E. Tegnér Frithiof's Saga 270 Thus should he stand opposite the Brage-goblet, first make a vow, and then drink out the Bumper. 1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) Gloss. 549 Bragi's bumper—the Bragafull. 1851 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. I. 190 At guilds the Bragarfull, or Bragi-cup was drunk. 1854 B. Jerrold (title) A brage beaker with the Swedes: or, notes from the North in 1852. 1921 Public Opin. 15 July 61/3 Wielding Thor's hammer and drinking from the braga-beaker in the hall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1839 |
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