#drinking horns

[shiftythrifting]

Genuine drinking horn & cheerful as the dickens ladybug teapot. Two things I would never, ever drink from. Savers, Newington, CT

[historianinthekitchenblog]

Frisian drinkinghorns at the exhibition 'Freedom, Feuds, Purgatory: the Middle Ages in the North'

Drinkinghorns are horns of generally bovine animals that are used by people to drink beer or mead (alcoholic fermented honey drink) from. Old Germanic peoples like Vikings, Saxons and Frisians are usually linked to these types of drinkingvessels, but in Asia and Africa cattleherding people are also known to use them.

Drinking from horns isn't a practical occurence. The chape prohibits it from putting the object down. That's why horns were used to pass around during celebrations and religious rituals or to drink the content in one go.

[finnleyshortstuff]

[vikingvalhallawarrior]

[moonflower-alchemy]

Two days home from the Port Nassau pirate event and I'm already getting horny for Tortuga in 5 weeks. 🤭

Redoing the rims on some already painted horns & coating the insides of 8 others.

[heroinstitute]

drinking horns and axe throwing (and some turkey legs), sign us up!

[avalon-princesss]

Medeival Faire ⚔

[kultofathena]

Nothing says Viking, Celt, or Barbarian more than a drinking horn. Made from polished cow horn, the interior of these drinking horns are uncoated.

Traditionally, a drinking horn would be filled with a melted beeswax, sifted around, and left to solidify for a coating.

Wiping the horns occasionally with vegetable oil will lengthen their life.

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

A drinking horn with silver-gilt mounts. The horn is curved and decorated with bands of bronze-gilt running vertically down the horn. There are two decorated bands running around the circumference of the horn. The larger band has two clawed feet on which the horn stands. At the narrow end of the horn there is a long tapering, curved mount with a spherical top. A silver mouth with engraved floral motifs was added at a later date. Northern German or Scandinavian.

Materials: Animal; Horn; Metal; silver (gilded)

Technique: Silver Gilding

Drinking horn, German or Scandinavian, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[alephskoteinos]

Does anyone know what those Viking drinking horns are called? I've been looking for them for a while now.

[leafnincosplay]

Decoupaged fabric drinking horn for my barbarian Bowser cosplay! Made using a stiff foil base that I wedged out after the decoupage dried. Foam clay details on the inside and outside really disguise the material and make it look like a horn!

This was a huge experiment to see if it works work. Decoupaged cotton is pretty strong but it took 3 layers of fabric to keep the horn from being too soft.

Half of the time it took to make this was drying time. Each layer took about 24 hours to dry when I was building it. But it was worth the wait.

It is not food safe (though there is a mod podge that would make it so) but I do have hard coat on the inside curing to make this horn strong like plastic

[powderhornsandmore]

The age-old tradition of drinking from a horn is experiencing a modern revival, captivating people with its rustic charm and unique appeal. Drinking horns, often associated with the Vikings and medieval feasting, are not just decorative items but also possess numerous benefits and practical uses.

[common-misconceptions-daily]

Vikings did not drink out of the skulls of vanquished enemies. This was based on a mistranslation of the skaldic poetic use of ór bjúgviðum hausa (branches of skulls) to refer to drinking horns.[264]

[theancientwayoflife]

~ The Norwegian Royal Horn (drinking horn).

Date: 14th century

Place of origin: Skalholt Cathedral

[moonflower-alchemy]

Paint paint paint! 🎨

Maybe someday I'll get a better handle on time blindness & procrastination, but not this week!

Trying to hustle and get things painted for Saturday, especially the drinking horns (since they'll still need a final coat of resin to seal the art).

Come find these and other goodies at my last market of the season: WYTCHE DAYE. My booth will be right by the entrance!