Welcome to the top Google search result for “dogshit letterbomb.”

The Meadhall of the Comitatus is a site for writers, gamers, and artists. Most of the core group met in college in the gloomy hell-scape of northeastern Ohio, but has since expanded beyond the economic shit-hole that gave birth to it.

The Name

Usurper named the site after getting over his hatred of Beowulf and learning to love the old tale. A meadhall is a feasting hall where men drink mead. Mead is a honey-wine, and it’s fucking delicious. A comitatus is a group of men organized, typically under a chief, for mutual protection, and was once the dominant form of government in Anglo-Saxon Britain and parts of Germania.

History

Created in 2001 as a Tripod site and an EZ-Board, the purpose of the Meadhall was to allow a group of friends, all of whom were into writing, art, gaming, or combinations of the three, stay in touch. Most of them were fellow English majors from Ohio, Ozmodeus, Unspeakable, Funk, and Furor Thompsonicus. We added beatnik composer Mblackwell and others along the way, and shipped Funk to Hawaii to avoid prosecution.

Once articles began popping up on the site, it became a way of amusing each other and exercising our writing skills. We’ve accidentally inflicted ourselves on the rest of the internet as well, with up to ten hits a day (w00t!). Our attempts at humor earned the ire of Fu Schnickens, a beastly Nordic boogeyman who has no relation whatsoever with the American hip-hop group of the same name.

There’ve been several incarnations of the Meadhall since 2001. Due to the various changes, some article dates may reflect a date they were converted to new software. On the oldest articles, their dates reflect the “last modified” date of their static html files from a backup taken in 2002. At present, there are a lot of articles that need cleaned up from a recent software conversion. Anything attributed to “admin” really needs to be edited.

The Motto

Go watch Blade.

Sign Me Up!

The rules are simple: don’t be a douche. Register on the forum while we work the kinks out of the main site registration. We don’t pay anything, but if you want to submit articles, we’re open to new writers.