[Sca-cooks] Service and Kraut questions from Gwen Cat
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Fri Feb 8 21:03:46 PST 2013
Companion from the late Latin "com" (together) + "panis" (bread). It enters
Old Italian as "compagnio" and Old French as "companion," each with a number
of different spellings. Linguistically, the word is probably a translation
into Latin from Old High Gothic.
Some of the illustrations I've examined from the High Middle Ages suggest
that bowls and trenchers were probably individual with a messe or service
for two to four people. Illustrations from the Early Middle Ages are more
difficult to analyze.
Bear
> For a long time,
> two people shared a bowl ("companion" is supposedly from "com pain"; that
> is, the one one shared one's bread, and the rest of the meal, with).
>
> Jim Chevallier
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