"A wind out of the north bore tidings of oncoming winter." (IV, p. 26)
In the giant's hall where a giantess nurses Hadding:
"...they all sat about the fire, in a rank gloom, while wind hooted outside and from afar sounded the howling of wolves." (p. 31)
"There were neither high seat nor benches; one sat on the ground, drank ale from bucket-big wooden cups passed hand to hand, gnawed coarse bread and roasted meat." (II, p.19)
The surface underfoot is called "the ground" even inside the hall! - although, on p. 21, it is dignified with the name "floor."
Hadding is raised in pre-human wildness.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I think we should understand that "ground" inside that rather wretched hall as actual dirt. No Flooring of any kind, whether wood, brick, or stone.
Ad astra! Sean
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