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Puzzling that so many had issues with this story. I am not a native English speaker but found no problems reading it and getting the point. Saxon Kings had die
by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Puzzling that so many had issues with this story. I am not a native English speaker but found no problems reading it and getting the point.
Saxon Kings had diets with very little meat, similar to peasants of the era. How do they know this? By studying bones in graves.
Why was this surprising? Because writings of the era described large meat heavy feasts. But conclusion that a they must have been just that. Rare feasts.
Mostly vegetarian in this case simply means they mostly ate vegetables, bread etc. But yes they also had small quantities of meat. Nothing like the large quantities us modern humans eat.
- lolinder 4y agoThe problem is a nuance in the phrase "mostly vegetarian". That you are a second language speaker might actually have helped you here. If they had said "Anglo-Saxon kings ate a diet that was mostly vegetarian", that would correctly convey that all kings still ate meat. They instead said "Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian", which is ambiguous. Were most kings wholly vegetarian or were all kings mostly vegetarian? After you resolve that, there's still the question of what "mostly vegetarian" means. For most people, eating meat every day disqualifies you, even if it's only a little bit of meat per meal. "Vegetarian" means a lot more than "consisting of vegetables" in today's world, and the BBC knows that.