SC - Historical varieties

[James Prescott]

I'm pretty sure I've seen Nasrudin stories set in the 20th century. 
As I pointed out when this argument first appeared, you would have to 
have a story in the form in which it was written down in period, in 
the original language, and check that the pastry mentioned was 
actually called baklava. That would at least tell you that a pastry 
called "baklava" existed in period. I think the odds that Hrolf has 
actually done that are low, but will be happy to have that opinion 
corrected by evidence.

>Cariadoc wrote:
>
>>
>>4. We have an assertion by Hrolf Hrolfsen that "you can easily
>>document" baklava by looking at the Mullah Nasrudin stories, but no
>>actual evidence,
>
>Weren't the Nasreddin stories constantly being added to over the centuries?
>IIRC, the earliest ones were written down in the late 15th century but later
>on, many stories originally told about other characters were attributed to
>Nasreddin, and some of the stories weren't recorded until the 19th or even
>the 20th century. I´ve never seen a Nasreddin story that carried any
>information on its origin/earliest appearance. So looking at Nasreddin
>stories sounds like pretty poor documentation to me.
>
>Nanna
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David Friedman
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