[Sca-cooks] jars, bottles and horns
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Nov 24 22:20:31 PST 2004
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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