Mead

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"You laugh greatly, drink deep and bellow good songs; though I never saw another Cimmerian who drank aught but water, or who ever laughed, or ever sang save to chant dismal dirges."

- The Phoenix on the Sword

Many lands and many people claim the discovery of mead, to be the first to learn that the already wondrous foodstuff of the bee could be fermented into something yet more wondrous. The Aesir and Vanir of Nordheim often seal pacts made in Ymir's name with three successive drinks of mead. A sip of this honeyed brew warms the tongue.