The Medieval Saint Diet

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[silviusaltus]

As a medievalist who deals closely with the texts of St Patrick and St columba, you may be interested to hear that Columba was actually the first saint to have been said to have driven snakes from an island, and the story was only added to the legend of St Patrick around the 12th century.

[drshazbot]

I love that one of the Columba stories is very clearly just “man bumps into someone, spills all their milk, comes up with worst possible excuse.”

[vadalia]

"Woman of affordable virtue" is both the funniest and most polite version of that word/phrase I've ever heard. Kudos!

[sammy]

i absolutely love the thought that columba would just suddenly interject into conversations and be like “FOURTEEN MEN WILL DIE AND THEIR WIVES WILL HAVE THEIR HEART TURNED INSIDE OUT, ” and then everyone just staring at him and going back to eating after these periodic outbursts😂

[Heydodoakskdkdjf]

Hunting boars was a HUGE deal in various Celtic cultures, especially since the best cuts of pork would be salted and preserved for their best warriors. Plus boars are HUGE and vicious, known to kill even the best hunters. It was such a powerful animal that it was a totem animal of sorts for pagan Celts. For St. Columba to simply raise his hand and command it’s death (via God) was absolutely a power play lol, at least in the eyes of the Picts.

[cuttwice]

Parsley stems are full of flavor. It is thrifty and wise to use them when poaching and reserve the leaves for the green sauce.

[PokhrajRoy.]

Petition to see Max Miller doing voiceovers for Infomercials because the Intro Sequence made me chuckle.

[fabrisseterbrugghe]

As someone who attended St Columba's Church of Scotland as a child, I'm thrilled to hear more about the saint.

I also ate sole in green sauce at Ogenblijk when I lived in Belgium. The sole was shallow poached and served warm, but the green sauce sounds nearly identical.

[sallyomahony]

‘A lady of affordable virtue.’ I love it. 😂

[brendanshull]

I genuinely hoped you'd add in the fact that St Columba is purported to be the first recorded witness of the Loch Ness Monster, who he drove away from attacking a man swimming in the River Ness

[Lauren.E.O]

As long as you keep it out of your house, the Magic Stick of Food Getting sounds pretty useful. Honestly, it’s not the wife’s fault that her husband never mentioned how it worked. Seems like important info for the whole family.

[thebratqueen]

I have to imagine Salt Wife Guy going around muttering "Columba, Patron Saint of Burying the Lede" when Columba didn't think to mention the giant freaking fire that was about to hit the town.

[tylerboyce]

Honestly "I wrote a book and it started a war" is a pretty badass origin story.

[natmorse-noland]

I love that so many of these miracle stories have the vibe of just "a random thing that happened that people blamed on the resident weirdo."

[respther]

“And it’s not what you’re thinking.” It’s exactly what I was thinking and laughed out loud.

[zenismarit]

I love all the medieval illustrations of “seafood”.

[shakti]

Niàll of the Nine Hostages, is the progenitor of the last name O'Neal. The coat of arms has a bloody hand. Legend says that in a bet to win a new land, Niall was racing to the shore, but fell behind. So, he cut off his hand and threw it onshore. Thus being the first to touch this new land, he won the bet and the new land.

[dimmingstar]

the ominous music whenever Columba made a prophecy was amazing LOL, thank you for that extra effort/detail 😂 little things like this just elevate the video even more <3

[PokhrajRoy.]

Omg I love the fact that recipes were like poetry. It’s easier to remember and has a rhythm.

[arcticfox]

Fun note on the wooden grill. That was actully a thing. I saw an example at a meseum years ago on a midieval food preservation. This specific example was an old mini barrel i think a hogshead or something like that meant for a wagon train which they took the top out of and placed some charcoal ontop of a rock or dirt or something simular to insulate the base to basically make a smoker and covered with a wooden lid of some kind with hooks usually of bone or wood unless wealthy enough for iron to hold the meat suspended.

Was cheaper and easier to build then an actual smoker for peasents and light enough to take with you or to build in the field vs a lot of iron cookware. And there were a lot of versions of it that could be made. The plaque even said something about using hallowed out tree stumps in some cases.