As far as I can remember, there are no other drunken women
>in OE literature.
>
>I would appreciate very much hearing from anyone who has run across
>other drunken women, especially in Anglo-Saxon literature but also any
>other medieval literature.
>
>They are not unknown in ME literature. Cf the Wife of Bath:
In women vinolent is no defence;
This knowen lecchours by experience.
Oriens.
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