[Sca-cooks] Viking recipes site

[David Friedman]

It wasn't the cider I was commenting on, it was the apple brandy.

On 1/18/14 5:36 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> And in fact the use of cider may reflect DEEPER knowledge of the  era:
>
> " literary analysis shows that Old English beor and Old Norse björr  are
> terms used for sweet alcoholic beverages. Until the last ten years or so,
> philologists thought that beor and björr were derived from the word for barley,
>   and it is only recently that it was realized that the term almost
> certainly  referred to cider (whether from apples or pears) during the Viking Age
> (Hagen  pp. 205-206; Roesdahl, p. 120). English translations of the sagas will
> translate  both öland björr interchangeably as beer or ale, and so are not
> a good guide to  the actual terminology being used in the original Old Norse
>   text."
>
> (Hagen, noted here, is, in general, a very rigorous  scholar.)
>   
> This page overall is nicely done.
>   
> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/drink.shtml
>
>
> Jim Chevallier
>
> "Spices in France in the Dark Ages"
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/01/spices-in-french-dark-ages.html
>
> In  a message dated 1/18/2014 5:23:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> JIMCHEVAL at aol.com  writes:
> Cider and calvados are specialties of Normandy which was settled  by
> Vikings and cider at least began its dominance within a few  centuries of
> their  occupation.
>   
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