Cleltic drink

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:03:37 +0000, Phil C.

I've just been trying to trandcribe some documents of my 3xg grandfather from the 1880s. He refers in a song lyric to a drink of the ancient Celts made from honey, served on festive occasions and poured from mbuttive beakers into goblets of gold. (I wouldn't treat him as a reliable historical source).The name is written twice, one of them in a glossary at the back and looks like "motheriou" on both occasions though the handwriting isn't at all easy to read. Anybody heard of such a drink?

The drink is Mead the celts loved it,

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The goblets of gold are perfectly true, this *may* have been used for mead. -- SMS marketing, Direct marketing phone calls, Silent phone calls? IME they work :-)