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{{short description|Feast in Germanic paganism}} [[File:Drinking scene on an image stone.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A drinking scene on an [[image stone]] from [[Gotland]], in the [[Swedish Museum of National Antiquities]] in [[Stockholm]]]] {{For|the British band|Symbel (band)}} {{Redirect|Sumble|the legendary king|Sumble (Finnish king)}} '''Symbel''' ([[Old English language|OE]]) and '''sumbl''' ([[Old Norse language|ON]]) are Germanic terms for "feast, banquet". Accounts of the ''symbel'' are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon ''[[Beowulf]]'' (lines 489β675 and 1491β1500), ''[[Dream of the Rood]]'' (line 141) and ''[[Judith (poem)|Judith]]'' (line 15), Old Saxon ''[[Heliand]]'' (line 3339), and the Old Norse ''[[Lokasenna]]'' (stanza 8) as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the ''[[Heimskringla]]'' account of the [[Viking funeral#Funeral ale and the passing of inheritance|funeral ale]] held by [[Sweyn I of Denmark|King Sweyn]], or in the ''[[Fagrskinna]]''. Paul C. Bauschatz in 1976 suggested that the term reflects a [[Germanic paganism|pagan]] ritual which had a "great religious significance in the culture of the early Germanic people".<ref name="bauschatz">First proposed at the Third International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, at the University of Texas at Austin, April 5β9, 1976 (published in 1978), elaborated in Bauschatz, "The Germanic ritual feast" and ''The Well and the Tree''; Pollington, ''Mead-hall''.</ref>
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