[Sca-cooks] horse drippings

[Terri Morgan]

jC said:
< Then there is this anecdote about Hakon the  Good:
"But on the morrow, when men went to table, the [pagan] bonders  thronged 
[Hakon the Good], bidding him eat horse-flesh, and in no wise the king  
would. Then they bade him drink the broth thereof, but this would he none
the  
more. Then would they have him eat of the drippings, but he would not; and
it  
went nigh to their falling on him."
Snorri Sturluson >


This was in reference to a coronation meal. The new king was to ceremonially
'marry' a horse, which represented the country, and then he was to eat it,
to 'take it into himself' and become one with the country it represented.
As a Christian, he refused the 'witchcraft' of the ceremony, refusing the
nation in their eyes.

It also hearkens to what has been written about "thrice cooked beasts" - a
measure of meat roasted, another cooked in a boiling pan and removed to
serve and then its left over liquids used again mixed with grains or veggies
afterwards, which secures the greatest amount of protein from the meat
making it into the mouths of the diners.


Hrothny