Nordic King's structure, center of the community, a place for feasting, with ample brewed beverages (mead).
Examples
The ritual according to Bauschatz was always conducted indoors, usually in a chieftain's mead hall.
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.