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I think you want pig-pork, not pig-ham. (Ham is an Anglo-Saxon term.) IIRC, this "theory" first appears in dialogue in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820).
by kylebgorman 12y ago
I think you want pig-pork, not pig-ham. (Ham is an Anglo-Saxon term.)
IIRC, this "theory" first appears in dialogue in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820).
- kyllo 12y agoRight, ham refers specifically to cured pork.
- thret 12y agoAh, that's where I'd heard it. I was wracking my brains for a minute, thank you. It is a good book, I heartily recommend it. I was perplexed by the anti-Semitism of WW2 (Where did it come from? How? Why?) until I read Ivanhoe.
- javert 12y agoRe: pork, yes, you are correct, thanks. Re: The provenance of the theory. It makes a lot of sense to me, but I don't know how valid it really is. If it first appears in Ivanhoe, that's very interesting.