The Cup as Symbol and Metaphor in Old English Literature

Speculum 60 (3):517-536 (1985)
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One of the most attractive of the many images of drinking cups in Old English poetry is that in Riddle 30a, where the poet describes a wooden cup being passed from person to person and “kissed” by men and women

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