LL-L "Traditions" 2005.09.02 (03) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2005.09.01 (08) [E]


Our Luc wrote:
"Pigeons are also on the menu in restaurants. And i must add that it taiste 
very good also.It isn't rubbery at all! "Kwakkels" (D: kwartels, E: quails) 
are also very tasty, but a bit small to 'handdle'. We love to eat snales , 
like in France. In wintertime , or in the 'old days' when there was 
something to be celebrated there was always "beaf-tongue" in madeira-sauce 
on the
menu. Now we eat also the tongues from pigs and cheep."

Quails were always considered haute cuisine in Britain and Ireland - quail 
eggs especially so. Both are widely available from some supermarkets now 
though. Beef, pig and sheep tongue were favourites in working communities in 
both Britain and Ireland - often as sandwich fillers. Consumption of tongue 
is rarer nowadays because sliced meat is cheap. Oxtail soup was also 
standard lunch time fare until recently.

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2005.09.01 (08) [E]

Message text written by INTERNET:lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
>I can't find any pictures of Kentish gable horses and don't remember their
look. <

They are mostly made of earthenware/ tile and only used to end either end
of the roof or a gable with.
Next time I'm in town, I'll take my camera with me and see if I can snap a
few!

To many they might just look like a curl or a shaped final.

by the by, there was mention in the paper today of a Topping Out ceremony -
to mark the finish of the exterior of a new public building.

Heather

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Traditions

Hey, Heather!

Thanks for the effort and the info.  It's all quite fascinating to me, as 
I'm particularly interested in possibly Old Saxon folklore, material culture 
and the like (besides linguistic material) that link Saxon England with the 
Continental Saxon areas.  (This includes, by the way, possible links between 
place names.)

> They are mostly made of earthenware/ tile and only used to end either end
of the roof or a gable with.

Ah!  The ones on the Continent are usually made from wood, are crossed 
extensions of the scantlings (LS _Hüserbalken_, G _Dachgiebelbalken_) 
meeting at the gable top (LS _va(r)st_ <Fa(r)st> ~ _vö(r)st_ <Fö(r)st>, G 
_First_; "gable": LS _geyvel_ <Gevel>, G _Giebel_).  They are thus integral, 
albeit not necessarily mandatory, parts of the half-timbering structure (LS 
_rygel(ey)_ <Riegel(ee)>, G _Fachwerk(holz)_ ~ _Fachwerkstruktur_).

In the case of houses on the (Lunenburg) Heath, there is the addition of a 
hole underneath the cross, a remnant of the old smoke escape, the old "wind 
eye" (= "window").  It's Low Saxon name is _ulen-vlucht_ (<Ulenflucht> 
"owl's flight").  I suppose this requires no explanation, except that the 
same word also means "dusk," "evening twilight."  (Kind of "romantic," isn't 
it?)

> Next time I'm in town, I'll take my camera with me and see if I can snap a
> few!

Splendid! Ta!

Reinhard/Ron

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