It comes from the Germans, who drank mead, or metheglin-a beverage made of honey-for thirty days after the wedding.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
The modern housewife may be aghast at the thought of more than a hundred ways of making mead and metheglin.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
The seriousness of the business is tremendous; and to ignore the fine shades in the 106 receipts for mead and metheglin would have been a frivolity unknown in Digby's circle.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby