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benefactors
provided
well
for
that,
as
one
instance
will
show.
Ethelwold
allowed
the
Monastery
of
Abingdon
a great
bowl,
from
which
the
drinking
vessels
of
the
brothers
were
filled
twice
a
day.
At
Christmas,
Eas-
ter,
Pentecost,
the
Nativity
and
Assumption
of
the
Virgin,
on
the
festivals
of
Saints
Peter
and
Paul,
and
all
the
other
saints,
they
were
to
have
wine,
as
well
as
mead,
twice
a
day
;
and
taking
the
number
of
Saints
in
the
Anglo-Saxon
Calendar^
it
must
have
gone
hard
with
them,
if
this
was
not
almost
an
every-day
occur-
rence.
The
Northern
nations
did
not
lose
their
love
of
drink
as
time
rolled on,
as
we
may
find
in
the
pages
of
Olaus
Magnus.
They
drank
wine,
but
owing
to
the
extreme
cold
it
was
not
of
native
production,
but
imported.
In
this
illustration
we
see the
vessel
that
has
brought
it,
and
the
bush
outside,
denoting
that
it
was
to
be
sold.
They
got
it
from
Spain,
Italy,
France,