Request for info on hot dogs in literature

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>>>I read online that a hot dog like substance appeared in the Iliad
>>>("As when a man beside a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and
>>>blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it
>>>quickly roasted") -- would you say that's true?  And, if so - you
>>>don't know what the exact translation of the sausage word would be,
>>>do you?
>
>This line is actually from the Odyssey,  not the Iliad. The word
>translated as "sausage" is gaster [gamma-alpha-sigma-tau-eta-rho],
>whose literal meaning is "stomach." In some translations of the
>Odyssey, the literal meaning is used. Presumably, the stomach of some
>animal was used as the casing for the material(s) used to make the
>sausage.

Maybe like a haggis.

-- Doug Wilson