Mead
[from Old Norse mjodr, in today's Norwegian: mjød]
Wine made of honey; a boiled and fermented mixture of honey and water (with the addition of various spices in modern times). Predating both grape wine and beer, it's known in various forms on every continent on Earth. Alcoholic drinks made from honey were common among the ancients of Scandinavia, Gaul, Teutonic Europe, and Greece and in the European Middle Ages, particularly in northern countries where grapevines do not flourish.
Mead is made in modern times as a sweet or dry wine of low alcoholic strength.
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Mead names from around the world:
meodu Olde English mead
miòd Polish mead
mjöd Swedish mead
mõdu Estonian honey beeraguamiel Spanish mead
med Bulgarian and Ukranian mead
mede Dutch mead
met German mead
medu Old German mead
madhu Indian Sanskrit word for mead
mézbor Hungarian honey wine
meddeglyn or myddyglyn Welsh spiced mead
medica Slovenian mead
medovina Czech and Slovak mead
medovukha Russian mead
meis Eritrean mead
midus Lithuanian mead
hidromel Portugese mead
ydromeli Greek mead
hydromel French mead
idromele Italian mead
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