[Sca-cooks] RE: Plums and Irish

[UlfR]

UlfR <ulfr at hunter-gatherer.org> [2005.08.08] wrote:
> Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> [2005.08.07] wrote:
> > Were I looking for further evidence to support or refute the contention, I 
> > would look at what information is available on the diet of Viking Era 
> > Dublin.

> I have a sleeping child on my shoulder, else I could check a PhD thesis
> on viking age plant food I've got lying around.

The child has woken up and I have found the book :-/

Sounce:
  Ann-Marie Hansson  "On Plant Food in the Scandinavian Peninsula in Early
  Medieval Times"  Thesis at Archaelogical Research Laboratory (Stockholm 
  University) 1997

She lists that there was traces of "Prunus sp." found in Birka. Most of
the thesis was on bread (with some work on hops and plant food remains
from a couple of sited. No idea what Prunus species, though.

/UlfR

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