[Sca-cooks] Fw: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Fw: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig] Another look at a...

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From: "Lisa M LeChatton" <llechatton at longcoeur.com>
To: <sca-equine at midrealm.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: RE: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Fw: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig] Another look at
a...


> One would expect someone from the Cooks List to know about St Gregory III
> [731-741]. As Pope, he banned the eating of horse-meat in 732 AD. Eating
> (and using the more interesting bits and pieces for display)of the horse
has
> been documented as part of Celt and Egyptian pagan celebrations. The Papal
> decree was not eased until 1866, when Europe was starving. The ban on
eating
> horseflesh is considered one of the reasons that the Icelanders took so
long
> to convert - those good Vikings knew hard winters and thought it was a
> wasteful law.
>
> Since the horse does have a pack saddle on - pack animal would be its use.
> Very smart too, he's just the right size for kitchen help.
>
> Pass it on,
> Aimee LongCoeur
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sca-equine at midrealm.org [mailto:owner-sca-equine at midrealm.org]
> On Behalf Of VixensMistress at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:00 AM
> To: sca-equine at midrealm.org
> Subject: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Fw: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig] Another look at
> a...
>
> I think we have fallen into the trap of over interpreting this picture of
> the small horse/pony/colt carrying the pack saddle.  Myself included!  I
am
> just glad that the "cooks" agree that the pony is wearing a pack saddle.
If
> the "cooks" wish to interpret the image as evidence of the Normans eating
> roast pony at a feast, I am willing to concede that point.
>
>
> Rachel from Barony Bhakail, East Kingdom
>
>
>
> In a message dated 5/20/2004 12:30:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> katherineofwhiteacre at yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>
> Dame Selene wrote:
>
> >>I stand by my original statement. Whilst small
> >pack-ponies are present in
> >>other frames of the Bayeux Tapestry, this one
> >appears to have a different,
> >>um, destiny. Here is a picture of the panel:
> >>
> >>http://hastings1066.com/bayeux22.shtml
> >>
> >>³HIC EST WADARD. HIC COQUITOR CARO. ET HIC
> >MINISTRAVERUNT MINISTRI.²
> >>[Here is Wadard. Here meat is cooked. And here the
> >servants serve the
> >food.]
> >>
> >>Here is one man with an ax over his head, about to
> >address the weapon to a
> >>large and a small beeve.  Also, another man with
> >an ax over his shoulder,
> >>leading a small pony.  Yes, there is a basket on
> >his back, but that ax
> >>really looks to me like it¹s about to be used. I
> >feel that this is clearly
> >>destined for the dinner table.
>
> It just occured to me... Perhaps a more logical
> explanation for the man carrying an axe and leading a
> pack pony away from the *fire pit* is that he is going
> to get more wood?
>
> Katherine
>
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>
> From:  "Lisa M LeChatton" <llechatton at longcoeur.com>
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