[Sca-cooks] jars, bottles and horns

[Stefan li Rous]

    William de Grandfort said jest:
> Narrow-necked, and without handles???  What madness drove them to put
> beer into *that* kind of
> vessel??  You can't get a decent stagger going if you don't have a
> handle to hold your beer up!!
> What about the sway-and-slosh factor??  You can't get a good slosh out
> of a narrow-necked bottle, that's for sure.
Yes, but I think all of that applies even more so for drinking horns. 
So why do we have this image that the Norse, in particular, always 
drank from horns. Or even more, great big mucking horns?

They probably did use horns, but I doubt it was in the quantities that 
most folks seem to think. I think they may have used horn, but to make 
different drinking utensils.
N-drink-ves-msg    (9K) 10/16/96    Norse drinking vessels.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/NORSE/N-drink-ves-msg.html

See the Florilegium for more details on various different drinking 
vessels such as mazers.

Stefan
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