> Trying to go back and reconstruct what exactly the Irish were eating 1,000
> years ago century would be a complicated proposition, because you'd first
> have to explain what you meant by "Irish"--there was a lot of population
> shuffling between Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and then of course you had
> all the nordic barbarians trampling through (there would be no red-headed
> or blond Irish if it weren't for Viking invaders), and then you'd have to
> take into account the Moores too (which is where the black Irish come from).
>
Now, now... there's a lot of information about what foodstuffs were
being consumed in Ireland in the Eleventh Century (ce), and everyone
would have been eating what was available, as far as I can imagine...
It's true that there is tremendous mixing of genetic material in
Europe (not the "black Irish were Moors theory, though, sorry...
that's another of those modern legends) but I fail to see how this
impedes land use evaluations.


Molly Ni/Da/na
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