[Sca-cooks] Period German menus
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Feb 8 07:03:44 PST 2007
On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>> Maybe not. For example, isn't a Hungarian boyar basically a rancher
>> of sorts? Yes, he's holding a lot of land, is a de facto thegn, and
>> is a farmer who raises cows. Problem???
>
> Ok, *you* get to explain that to Tanczos Istvan. We'll be selling
> tickets to watch from under The Rock.
It's that Indo-European Bo-thingy. Bo-vine, Tain Bo Cualgne, Boeuf,
Bo-yar, Bauer, etc. It's all about the cows...
Putting it another way: in a herding economy, cows are wealth and
power, and when Rumpolt speaks of a feast for a farmer, he's
presumably not talking about serfs or even tenants.
Adamantius
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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