. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . REsroENCE OF A Saxon Nobi,emanFrom a manuscript by the wind. To remedy the faulty construction of the wallsand keep the wind out hangings were largely used. InWynflaeds will wall-hangings and bed-hangings are referredto several times, and we know from other sources that con-siderable attention was paid to the weaving and designingof tapestries, wall-hangings, and curtains. In another direction the Saxons were distinctly all things appertaining to the table they appear to havespared no expense. As Sharon Turner has told us, thei
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . REsroENCE OF A Saxon Nobi,emanFrom a manuscript by the wind. To remedy the faulty construction of the wallsand keep the wind out hangings were largely used. InWynflaeds will wall-hangings and bed-hangings are referredto several times, and we know from other sources that con-siderable attention was paid to the weaving and designingof tapestries, wall-hangings, and curtains. In another direction the Saxons were distinctly all things appertaining to the table they appear to havespared no expense. As Sharon Turner has told us, theirtables were sometimes very elaborate, being occasionally158. f«»hamK-^ -*> Pi, XX. (i) A Dinner Party. (2) Beds with Curtains.(3) Wore-PRESs 158 SAXON ENGLAND made of silver and gold. Aethelwold, in Edgars reign, had asilver table worth three hundred pounds. In food and drink, also, the Saxons were not backward. InThe Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms we have references to a largenumber of fruits and vegetables and articles of food and fruits we find mention made of sweet apples, pears,peaches, medlars, plums, and cherries ; many of these hadbeen introduced by the Romans, and had lived on and beenutilized. Thus the peach had come from Persia, and thecherry, which was introduced by I^ucuUus into Italy, hadcome, via Rome, from Cerasus, in Cappadocia. For fleshfoods they used beef, mutton, calf, pig, goat, deer, and wildboar, as well as peacock, swan, duck, goose, culver, pigeon,water-fowl, and wild fowl generally, the latter being caughtby hawking. Many kinds of fish were caught; indeed,fishing was a separate art. We are told of salmon, tro
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