SC - typo?

[Mike C. Baker]

- ---Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> Agreed. The bottom line, is, though, that we don't know. I tried to
> suggest a hypothesis that would answer the existing pieces of the
> puzzle: we have reason to believe that the meat isn't cooked in
> honey, but rather in wine of some kind. How wine becomes honey, 
> in the sense of a typo or scribal error, has a limited number 
> of likely explanations.
> You'd have to misspell "wine" pretty badly to get "honey". A
> mistranslation seemed like a pretty good explanation, and I 
> mentioned the possibility of a wine with a similar name to 
> honey as exactly that: a possibility. Its perceived likelihood, 
> or the lack thereof, is something I didn't even bother to 
> consider, apart from mentioning that I
> looked for such a wine name and, like you, didn't find one.

Aha! I may just have something that could clarify a possible source
of the confusion.

Melomel, possibly? 
Hydromel? 
Some other of the mead derivatives?

More fuel for the grist in the mill... as I run for the door.

("See" y'all next week -- away from accounts & out of town for 
funeral and SoonerCon; back Monday)

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