[Sca-cooks] cattle
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Sat Mar 16 18:29:56 PDT 2013
Interesting stuff. I presume the word is related to "chattel".
Just to be clear, in one case, the animals in question are said to give
milk, so I believe we're talking about beef. And the cattle raid of Louth
also appears to be about the familiar bovine:
"A multitude of places, throughout Ireland, are named after cattle.
Legends upon the subject of "cow lore" are current amongst the peasantry; and
stories relating to bulls, cows, and calves are interwoven with Irish
Fairy-mythology, and interest chiefly from their topographical references. Several
of the early Irish Saints—like the Druids—were credited with the
possession of magical cows. Cattle raids and forays afford fruitful themes for early
romances, the most celebrated production being the Tain I", L'uailyne, or
the cattle raid of Louth, the so called Nibeluwjai Lied of Irish History.
It has been remarked that even the celebrebrated abduction of Dervorgil
partakes, when examined by the light of modern investigation, more of the
nature of a cattle foray than a romance, or love passage, between an Irish
Princess aged 44 and a King in bis 62nd year."
http://books.google.com/books?id=vRyBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22The+Cattle+Raid
%22+Louth&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9RtFUZOmFdC4qQG4loH4Cw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%
22The%20Cattle%20Raid%22%20Louth&f=false
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 3/16/2013 6:19:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
johnnae at mac.com writes:
OED goes into the Etymology of course
: Middle English catel , < Old Northern French catel (= central Old
French chatel , Provençal captal , capdal ) < late Latin captāle , Latin capitā
le , neuter of the adjective capitālis head-, principal, used subst. in
mediæval times in the sense ‘principal sum of money, capital, wealth, property
’; compare modern English = stock in trade. Thus Papias has ‘capitale ,
caput pecuniæ, capitis summa’, the Catholicon ‘capitale , pecunia’.
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