SC - Haversacks and nefts (??)
Lee-Gwen
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Thu Feb 15 07:50:35 PST 2001
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From: Anne-Marie Rousseau
> and I doubt upperclass folks would have brought
> their own [cutlery] to a banquet (except maybe thier knife),
I wonder if that is true for all of "period"? In Ivanhoe - written, I know,
outside of period - the Bishop (if memory serves me) takes his silver plate
with him when goes to dine with the Sheriff - or was that the other way
around? It could just be that Scott used poetic license with this - the
stuff had to be in transit for Robin to steal it. I suppose that to take
one's own would imply a lack of trust in one's host. I wonder, though, if
travellers might not have carried their eating gear with them?
Gwynydd
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