[Sca-cooks] cooking grains in beer

[Mike C. Baker / Kihe Blackeagle]

Food content returned to a geographic / cultural discussion:  "revealed 
truth", of the linguistic sort, in my family has been for many years

    "Good bread"  and "Good cheese":
    Good [English] and good Frise

(whose ancestry is "Scots, English, Irish, German AND Dutch; A little bit 
Injun, but not verra much")

Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe

Mike C. Baker
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] cooking grains in beer


>I am not positive, but in reading about the Frisian language and having 
>written to Nanna
> about Faroese, I am not sure that they would have understood each other. 
> Faroese is
> related to Icelandic.  Nanna said that she could definitely read it, but 
> understanding
> the spoken words was more difficult.  In reading the article that I sent 
> earlier about
> Frisia, the varying villages of Frisia couldn't understand each other, 
> even though they were
> speaking the same root language.  I believe that Dutch and German speakers 
> might pick
> up a word or two, but probably not comprehend any more than we would. 
> English is a
> Germanic language also and there are many common words between English and 
> German and
> English and Dutch, but that would not help the average English speaker 
> understand either
> German or Dutch.
>
> Huette
>
> --- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:
>> At 03:52 AM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
>> >No, Tyr sings in Old Faroese, not Old Frisian.
>> >
>> >http://www.tyr.net/videors.asp?Cmd=9&ID=55
>>
>> You're right about that. I remembered wrong. But with good reason- 
>> Faroese
>> and Frisian are related, being neighboring branches of the same 
>> linguistic
>> tree, Faroese being in the North Germanic branch, Frisian the West
>> Germanic. I can't remember if they can be understood by each other. 
>> Modern
>> German and modern Dutch can, but I don't know about the older languages.
>>
>> 'Lainie
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