Re: Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey

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Grethe wrote:





Hej!

Have you finished the stuff about 'dodder'?

Grethe

I don't think we established much.

Eorthrima = Dodder is still questionable.
The classical sources could be broomrape rather
than Dodder.
The reference to Dodder seed flavouring wine in
the Talmud is so far only based on an online source.
Probably more progress than with Uma though.
All contributions gratefully received. I'm off to
Bristol for my grandaughter's first birthday.

Celia

Congratulations with your granddaughter,
have a nice time. `:)

Just an addition then, from a little article from 2003 about
plant food. The Tollund Man (Silkeborg) from Iron Age,
sacrificed to the moor, had in his stomach among other
things the oily seeds from dodder (sæd-dodder = Camelina
sativa). Dodder and Flax were popular in Denmark in the
beginning of the Iron Age, but Dodder lost gradually its
significance and was not grown after 800 AD. There is a
fine little drawing of Dodder, do you have a picture of it?

Also in Holland it is regarded as a typical Iron Age crop,
e.g. on the so called Celthic Fields. Today it is very rare.
I read somewhere that the oil from the seed was particulary
used as lampoil and to treat leather.

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p.a.




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