Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about drunken women in
medieval literature. The classics and later medieval literature seem to
have plenty of drunken women, but I am still looking for same in Old
English literature. In the poetry women often pass the cup but as far
as I can remember they never even take a sip. If anyone has seen
anything Anglo-Saxon, either OE or Latin, in prose (sermons? homilies?)
or poetry, where a woman drinks, I would very much appreciate hearing
from you. (I do know about the "druncmennen," drunken maidservant, in
Exeter Book Riddle 12.)
Thanks -
Nina Rulon-Miller
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