SC - Trenchers Oh my!/Edgar Cayce

[Stefan li Rous]

Just got an article that might be interesting for some of you:

- -- George Thomas: Sprachliche Belege für die im Mittelalter nach
Russland eingeführten Gewürzarten. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter
(1971) 92-103. [About spices imported to Russia from Northern Germany
and elsewhere; discusses the linguistic evidence.]

Among the sources mentioned is the report of Sigmund von Herberstein,
who was in Russia as an ambassador in 1517 and 1526. He says, a.o.th,
that he was offered "Konfekt aus Anis" (anise sweets?) in Moskow. Now,
it seems there is an English translation (I don't know if is a complete
one):

HERBERSTEIN, SIGMUND VON: DESCRIPTION OF MOSCOW AND MUSCOVY, 1557.
Edited By Bertold Picard. Translated By J.B.C. Grundy. New York [1969].

Tho.