Request for info on hot dogs in literature

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:15 AM -0500 11/22/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>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.

I wonder if it's rendered as "haggis" in the standard Fitzgerald translation...

larry