SC - Horse worship

[Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir]

- -----Original Message-----
From: snowfire at mail.snet.net <snowfire at mail.snet.net>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: 13. febrúar 1999 20:31
Subject: Re: SC - Horse worship


>-Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
>
>I wonder if the pre-Saxon Britains maybe worshipped rather than ate horses?
If
>so, could this oldest subconsicous standard (i.e. worship not eat) still be
>"rearing it's head" ;-) (sorry!) in Britain thus causing our aversion to
eating
>horsemeat?


In Iceland, before Christianity, we worshipped horses AND ate them. Still
do, as a matter of fact (well, maybe not worship but we love and respect our
horses. And eat them.

Nanna

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