SC - Viking tucker

david friedman ddfr at best.com
Tue Mar 24 23:41:16 PST 1998


At 8:12 AM +1000 3/24/98, Robyn.Hodgkin at mailhost.dpie.gov.au wrote:

>The sagas contain some references to food and drink: there's a description
>of a feast in BEOWULF, but also try NJAL'S SAGA, KING HARALD'S SAGA,
>LAXDAELA'S SAGA, The ELDERREDA (not sure of the spelling - my appetite for
>sagas is very limited) and there would be references in the Icelandic sagas.

That's the Elder Edda. It isn't a saga--nor, any strict sense, is Beowulf.
Egilsaga gives a description of what not to serve to Egil.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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