SC - RE: Foreign language posts

[CorwynWdwd@aol.com]

But can it be carried by two swallows tied together?

<clip clop, clip clop, having a Monty Python moment>

Selene, Caid

Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:

> The question has been raised in this house about whether coconuts were used
> in SCA period in Europe.  I have done some major searches on-line and have
> come up with the following facts:
>
> 1) in 1280 the coconut is mentioned by Marco Polo who calls it an Indian
> Nut;
> 2) It was first called a coconut by English explorers in 1555 because the
> indentations on the base of the nut resembled monkey (coco meaning either
> monkey or monkey face, I can't remember which.
>
> Gwynydd (who wishes to assure the List that just because it came up in a
> conversation about lamingtons does not mean that she is trying to prove that
> they _could_ have made lamingtons in period!)