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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2742
Registered: 02-2005
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A client is obliged to provide an annual crimfheis, 'garlic feast', for his lord. If he fails to do so, he must pay his lord a fine of three séts. Judging from later glosses, it seems that this feast consisted of garlic with cheese and milk, and that it took place before Easter (ar cháiscc).
This is from Early Irish Farming. The "garlic" in question was not our bulbs and cloves, but rather Allium ursinum, aka ramsons, aka ramps, a wild garlic with edible leaves, more like a scallion.
Tá mé cinnte go mbeidh mé in ann anraith an-deas a dhéanamh as creamh, bainne, min choirce, cáis, agus salann.
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Mac_léinn
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Username: Mac_léinn
Post Number: 307
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 10:22 pm: |
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ar Cháiscc = before Easter = Carghas (Lent), b'fhéidir?
Is docha gurbh é béile é chun Aointe i rith Carghas ós rud é (since) nach raibh feoil ann.
Fáilte roimh cheartúcháin, go raibh maith agaibh.
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Dan
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Username: Dan
Post Number: 71
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 11:00 pm: |
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ramps now that is a fine veggie
used to pick them by the side of the house
in Fishkill NY where i grew up
but only in the spring. oh spring |
Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2744
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 11:39 pm: |
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ramps now that is a fine veggie
used to pick them by the side of the house
in Fishkill NY where i grew up
but only in the spring. oh spring
an creamh is glasra álainn é
bhaininn iad cois an tí
i bhFishkill mar ar tógadh mé
san earrach, ó le teacht an earraigh
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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