[SunkenCiv]

A still from the 2007 motion-capture film Beowulf. The epic poem featured a great hall of its own, Heorot, whose 'radiance shone over many lands'. Photograph: Paramount/Everett/Rex Features

[Red_Devil 232]

Oh My! Lets throw back a few Mugs of Mead in celebration of this find and go wild!

[lurk]

Yeah, look where all that partying and drinking and eating got them: dead. Every last one of them.

[GeronL]

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[bunkerhill7]

This is where the Saxon Secret Service ended.

[muawiyah]

Saxon Hall ~ the Angels came later ~ the people who would be known as Bretons were still evacuating the area since King Ad betrayed their interests by handing over their estates to illegal alien invaders ~ (idiot even hired on additional Saxons to do farm work after other Saxons had burned out the farmers ~ what a doufous).

The hall, if in use for parties, would probably have been built no earlier than 541 AD ~ reminding everybody St. Gildas' said all the buildings in that region had fallen down due to whatever it was changed the climate.

[cicero2k]

Then the Saxons implemented affirmative action and began admitting Vikings to the party.

Look where that got them.

[BfloGuy]

At 21 metres by 8.5 metres, it would have been the most imposing structure for miles

Leave it to "The Guardian" to go politically-correct on the room measurements but to revert to the dreaded Imperial system for the rest. Shouldn't consistency have made it the most imposing structure for "kilometers?"

Of course, Beowulf wouldn't have known a metre from a gobsmack.

[colorado tanker]

Kent, the southeasternmost county in England, was the first Saxon kingdom founded. This location is near the sea. This is the village green where the site was found, with the pub in the background. The time period was around the time they converted to Christianity. One last pagan bacchanal?

[2001convSVT]

I love great feasting halls and would like to build one!