Re: Anglo-Saxons before the migration

["David J. Starr"]

Peter Alaca wrote:
> As for the firewood, Pliny gives a very good description
> > of peat cutting:
> >  " .../they fashion the mud, too, with their hands/,
> >    /and drying it by the help of the winds more than/
> >    /of the sun, cook their food by its aid, and so/
> >    /warm their entrails, frozen as they are by the/
> >    /northern blasts/... "
> > As far as I know, this is the earliest written record
> > of peat cutting. 

Ah yes.  I missed that key bit on first reading.  I thought Pliny was 
speaking of making mud brick.  I missed the "cook their food by its aid" 
clause the first time I read it.

David Starr