[Sca-cooks] 12th Night 2007 Stories

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>  why use this obviously Celtic name? Is it just an
>Irish word for oats? Why is it not just oatmeal or porridge, or
>flummery, or what distinguishes it from them?

It is the Early Irish word for porridge and this 
was for the Irish Living History group, therefore 
the Irish name.
Ranvaig

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb24.html
lit
porridge, Middle Irish lité, Early Irish littiu, 
g. litten, Welsh llith, mash: *littiôn- (Stokes), 
*pl at .t-tiô, from pelt, polt, Greek @Gpóltos, 
porridge, Latin puls, pultis, pottage.