SC - table eating utensils

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> > Actually, they did eat without utensils other than a knife until relatively 
> > late in period. This is the reason why you only use your right hand to serve 
> > yourself food with (your left being used for personal cleansing).

> Hmm. Yes, I believe this left-handed thing was a tradition in the Middle East.
> Do you have any evidence that this was ever done with any consistancy in
> the non-Moslem parts of Europe?

Ras is just being a cultural chauvinist, AFAICT.

Bunches of them found in viking age contexts, of nothing else.

/UlfR
 thinking about some Jellinge style carvings on the rock...

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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
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