Note 4 — Chapter II · IN-DOOR LIFE AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS.—THE HALL AND ITS HOSPITALITY.—THE SAXON MEAL.—PROVISIONS AND COOKERY.—AFTER-DINNER OCCUPATIONS.—DRUNKEN BRAWLS.
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William of Malmesbury, de Gest. Pontif. printed in Gale, p. 249, describes the Saxons as cooking their meat in lebete, evidently meaning the sort of vessel figured in the foregoing cuts. The Latin lebes, a cauldron or kettle, is interpreted in the early glossaries by the Anglo-Saxon hwer, or huer, from which we derive the English word ewer; hwær-boll or hwær-cytel are interpreted in the Anglo-Saxon dictionaries as meaning a frying-pan, which is evidently not correct.