gift hall

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large communal building used in early Germanic and Norse societies as a place where valuable gifts were distributed to loyal warriors, thanes, retainers, etc.
    — Then morning came and many a warrior gathered,as I've heard, around the gift-hall, clan chiefs flocking from far and near[.]

词形变化

gift halls plural

词源

Calque of Old English gifheall, from gif (“gift”) + heall (“hall”).
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