[Sca-cooks] beast feasts

[david friedman]

Margali wrote (quite a while back):

>I always wanted to do a 'hero's hunt' based feast - like those old ballads
>about the huge hunk o beast and the days fighting champion getting to pick
>his heroic portion/doing the carving thang - very neat idea for a 'wild
>hunt' type of woods battle fighting event in the fall...
>
>margali
>hmmmmmm, where is that link to those Irish and Celtic hero-tales? Something
>about killing that mean nasty huge bull...

You may be thinking of MacDatho's Boar. That's the one where the
minor king who has rashly promised the same thing to two powerful
rival kings invites them to dinner simultaneously to let them have it
out. The question of who gets to carve is being settled by
competitive boasting and ends with person from side A saying, "Well,
I admit you are better than me, but if so-and-so were here, he would
make you give way", and person from side B says, "He is here", pulls
so-and-so's head out of a pouch and hurls it across the table.
Everything breaks up into a fight at that point, to the detriment of
dinner; I expect that is why you want to get the fighting out of the
way first?

Elizabeth/Betty Cook