The Victorian Christmas by Anna Selby

Author:Anna Selby
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783408535
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2013-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Note:- The addition of truffles would be an improvement.

Boar’s head

The custom of serving up the ancient dish at Queen’s College, Oxford, to a variation of the old carol, sprang, according to the university legend, from a valorous act on the part of a student of the college in question. While walking in Shotover forest, studying his Aristotle, he was suddenly made aware of the presence of a wild boar, by the animal rushing at him open-mouthed. With great presence of mind, and the exclamation, “Greacum est,” [It’s in Greek] the collegian thrust the philosopher’s ethics down his assailant’s throat, and having choked the savage with the sage, went on his way rejoicing. (Chambers)

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