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Guest-friendship means Friendship shown to guests; hospitality..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Friendship shown to guests; hospitality..
The great significance of guest friendship and gift-exchange in the Celto-Germanic world bears witness to a deeply-founded desire to enter into positive relations with other groups.
Germanic cultural traditions of guest-friendship and hospitality, immortalised in the heroic literature of Beowulf (610ff) (Cat. 2003, 116, 397; von Uslar, 1934: Abb 2, 7-8).
Professor Victor Alonso stresses the role of xenia as an overarching, transcending form of universally binding law in ancient Greece. He writes that the Greeks employed the institution of xenia, or guest-friendship, as a fundamental instrument and precept of international law.
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Guest-friendship means Friendship shown to guests; hospitality..
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The great significance of guest friendship and gift-exchange in the Celto-Germanic world bears witness to a deeply-founded desire to enter into positive relations with other groups.
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