gift hall

noun

gift hall

noun

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

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[.]1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 27:

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