Well, the Romans had inns on their main English roads around 200AD usually with their own
breweries attached (they were seemingly prone to burning down when the brewing got out of hand!!
so the breweries were usually set back away from the road by a goodly distance.) Before this
there weren't many proper roads so it is likely that earlier establishments were purely local
and not proper inns.
Roger Collett
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: yogh alliteration in BEOWULF
> Which leads to a serious question. Is there any record of when the English pub came to be? As
> opposed to stopping at a farmhouse by the road and asking for hospitality and a pint. It would
> be amusing to think they predate the conquest.
>
> Mark
>
> At 01:46 PM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
>>I don't know "Blickling", his work, etc. Nor Google I not.
>>I just like the sound of "Blickling"!
>>Back in seasons of Beowulf, there must have been "Blickings", as well.
>>When together in Tavern or Inn, often, by their sounds, they were known,
>>I would bet, as a "Blickering Lot", indeed more well known for "blickering"
>>than not. Lucky to have been spared by Grendel and such!
>>
>>Adios,
>>
>>Stephen V
>>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>
>>--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>From: Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: yogh alliteration in BEOWULF
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 8:05 AM
>>
>><snip>
>>KIERNAN DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT THE SCRIBE
>>DID NOT UNDERSTAND ARCHAIC BITS OF WHAT HE COPIED.
>><snip>
>>
>>Actually two scribes.
>>
>>Kiernan, I think, wants to see Beowulf as part of the Blickling Codex.
>>Beowulf's second scribe, who continued the transcription (from a bit
>>beyond the halfway point) may have belonged to the Blickling scriptorium.
>>There are also parallels between the description of Grendel's lair in
>>Beowulf and a description of Hell in one of the Blickling Homilies. (The
>>likely source is common. But was this a _direct and independent_ source for
>>each? Did Beowulf influence the Homily? Did the Homily influence Beowulf? Or
>>what?)
>>
>>Kiernan places much less weight on the linguistic discrepancies within the
>>text, arguing (to put it very crudely) that the *author* (hah!) is both
>>quite late and a sort of OE Ossian or Rowley, consciously achaicising during
>>the composition.
>>
>>CW
>>_______________________________________________
>>
>>Dozens have gone missing, the decision taken is Elsewhere.
>>but yes, yes we remain as poetry, pure immateriality.
>>in the name of the 'current state of things' they murmur to us:
>>"we went for a stroll, now it's a question of marching!" But this
>>stroll of ours has brought us a long way off, and now
>>the horizon is behind us.
>>
>>(from *Materiali*, Indiani Metropolitani 1977)
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