What it was like to visit a Medieval Tavern

I love classic "That's a knife!" reference. :)

We Serve Odin's Skull at my place of employment. There is also Viking Blood by the same company. It's great! Also, if you happen across it Viking Alchemist Meadery out of Georgia is AMAZING.

Definitely some more about meads please! Any ancient brewing would be extremely enjoyable to learn about.

Also, about the Meadery I mentioned. The owners? They love Tasting History. I think they even mentioned watching a few of your Viking videos in particular

Odin’s Skull is a decent mead. Reminds me of Fireball with less alcohol.

That's funny, I call my kids goats when they start climbing the furniture

​@@KP-tt5esthe turns have indeed tabled

this is exellent trivia. thank you. a fun fact of the first order!

Can confirm! I've raised goats - they're generally sweet and adorable, but very high energy. Can definitely be a handful!

There is a goat featured in some of the stories in the Grantville Gazette which are part of the 1632 sci-fi series who demonstrates this perfectly, I forget his name now...

😂 he barfed because he drank too much.
The other dude has to hold him away from hurling all over him.
I don't drink a drop myself I'm a teetotaler, but I've gotten snuckered a few times in my life.

Ironically I paused the video to look at some comments. I just so happemed to be at 15:32 and this exact picture was on the screen 😂😂

holdeth mine hair

"Hold my hair...[barfs]

​@@Hailstormand
16:25 😲😆

The video on Pease Pottage was another good one. While the name of the dish is often mis-stated as "peas porridge", that was never the dish. For extra fun there is a place named "Pease Pottage".

Peas pudding is essential with corned silverside. Yummy!

For 55 years I've been saying "piece porridge."

I would assume that they had to keep their stews/porridges on low cooking all the time since they had no way besides that to safely store “leftovers”?

Was he going to make Disney videos? Like the history or what? Now I’m curious lol

​@@megatronisfun He used to work at Disney and when he was called back he chose KRplus instead. This is the full video watch?v=jHpkqBFKmvA of him explaining.

@@lifeincolour09thank you for answering, I want to watch the video but can’t click the link, what’s the name?

@@megatronisfun It's just called "I quit" so it might hard to find. You can right click on the link I gave you and then press "Search Google for" or something like that and you'll find it. Or simply copy the text into Google search. KRplus does let me paste full links in comments.

@@megatronisfun I think it's called "I quit."

„make an Investigation check please“

It ends up being a very long session of dice rolls determining how wasted you are xd playing a dwarven berserker was a boon. We also drank irl, to make it more immersive

I think that sounds great

Dude... shrink the players to the size of ants... the kitchen has now become an entire country to explore. Let's say the party was accidentally served a shrink potion and their goal is reaching an antidote on the counter that was once a few dozen meters away from them, now thousands...

i thought i would have to scroll more to find a roleplay comment lol

"Or else"

I am using this from now on when I can. Thanks for pointing this out 😄

​@@JR-tr1df same 😂

"So don't be *vain,* and don't be *whiny;* or else I'll have to get *Medieval on your Heine!"* - "Amish Paradise"

I have a feeling that time has lowered the impact of those words, because I'm certain that back in the period of it's writing and since it was from another element of the church, that note would have carried power "from on high", the like of which can only be matched by threat of legal charges being filed today.
In modern terms, over here in the US we'd call that the crime of serving alcohol to minors, which results in instant revocation of your liquor license.

How does the thermometer sit in the stew?
As a single person who is disabled and on SSI, love this idea and like to give it a go.

Are you worried about a fire hazard?

And rather arbitrarily

The man who started adding -ussy to the end of random verbs:

I think ghost was a mistake

how about of drinking wine getting sloshed and screaming at people which wine is good and which is shit and get paid damn is one specific job

You only have to look at the coach and horses that Noah Webster drove through the English language.

Well,……yah..

I wish I could say the same about the bar down the street.

Evolutionary science posits that there must have been at least some orcs in earlier times. Oakland Raiders fans had to have come from somewhere.

A: "Mutants."
B: "Trolls."
A: "Mutants."
B: "Trolls."
A: "Mutant trolls."
B: "I'll buy that."

It is said some humans are Orcs. Though, I will not speak further. May upset certain people. Even though they said it first.

Those are called "Besenwirtschaft" (broom pub).

They also sell in September-October "neuer Wein" = "new wine", which is half fermented grape juice. It is sweet and sparklig and hasn't yet the full alcohol strength, but be careful! It can knock you out if you drink it like lemonade.

Sounds serene and incredible

That sounds amazing!

Fascinating

I’m actually working on a video on diners, so you don’t need to wait 500 years. Just a month.

What about Automats? 🧐​@@TastingHistory

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Days of Yore

@@leahreiss2943I heard on last week's Milk Street Radio podcast about documentary that was just made about the rise and fall of Automats. Has commentary from Mel Brooks. He even wrote and sang a song!

yes I need to see one try to figure out Dinner slag

A sparth looks very much like a typical Viking bearded axe, but the axe head is often mounted "upside down" which allows for a shorter handle. Both types have about the same mass as their equivalent small wood axe, but the head would be forged much more drawn out in every direction, as human targets don't require the metal to have as much girth as a stubborn oak tree.

in German you have a Spaltaxt , it is one sided and still used to split logs.

​Ew

Thank you. Can always rely on someone in a Max video to explain stuff!

Wrong way around was a tool which during times of trouble doubled up as a weapon

The more things change the more they stay the same 😂

No puggies back then though.

Come to my town there's no shortage of inns, taverns and pubs to come out of the rain into... Not to mention the local watering hole...

Same in my Scottish village. Two local pubs which serve good food. One is a very old and used by travellers for centuries as it was on the main route to Edinburgh.

The fact your name is kidzbop makes you uncomfortably Creepy

@@r3tr0actiongamer24 I'll get ur children's... Lol jk, I just thought the name was ironically funny

Ireland still exists for you.

I bet he did put all his points into Charisma 😂

@@DenSchimmige hahahaha! The best comment. I can't decide if he's a bard or an alchemist though.

We all know he has to be a warlock with hard tack as his patron

I noticed that as a bit of a German speaker. The German word is "Ei," and "Eier" for plural, pronounced pretty much the same way.

@@CrizzyEyes Exactly. And before there was a standardised orthography for German, everyone wrote everything the way it was spoken, even in dialect. That's why spellings such as "Eyer", "Eyren" or "Eyeren" were perfectly possible.

Eieren is the Dutch word for eggs.

the reason for this by the way is a process called 'sharpening' (or Holtzmann's law) that Old Norse went through, where geminate J's and W's (note that J has the German quality here) hardened or 'sharpened' (sharpening is a loan translation from the German term Verschärfung) into a geminate ggj and ggv (the V is a W sound) sound.
Egg was originally ajją in Proto-Germanic as it's reconstructed before becoming egg (the J was lost word finally) in Old Norse and ǣġ in Old English (the G there is incidental, that's just how Old English wrote J sounds, though some did come from the palatisation of G's)
a similar thing happened again in Faroese, itself descendent from Old Norse, called Skerping in that language, which is how Jógvan is cognate to John in English. Latin Iōannēs was loaned as jóan, which being treated like "jówan" basically (makes more sense when you realise that Faroese also diphthongises long vowels, somewhat like English, in such a way that it generates a W type sound), got turned into Jógvan, note also the ó is shortened, fronted, and unrounded (though not in all places) like as in "yeh")

Old English sounds insane when spoken properly

"Eyroun" or "eyren" is almost how you pronounce eggs in dutch! Its written like "eieren"

@@jowiemowie9081 damn that's right, and Ei/Eier in german. We sayeth egg in Norway. Don't know if we were influenced by England, or vice versa.

The dictionary said Eyren is a straight import from the Dutch. It makes sense.

​@@vidarvaggenah thats true. The Danes spell it aeg and id have thought Bokmal would have been influenced by that. Does seem as though English may have influenced your spelling of it. Oh arent eggs wonderful?

@@powderedground78 yes you might be right about that. I was thinking about the vikings and know they influenced the english language a bit. Just heard the word "ombudsman" in a british police show, just as we say it in Norway, and thought that was funny. It apperantly derives from the old norse "umboðsmaðr", which means "representative". Anyway i did some shallow googling and egg might be an old norse word, but we also say "egg" for the knife's edge. I'm not sure why I'm talking about this because I'm normally not into etymology, haha.

Ooh I have sour cherry trees and I like mead! I'll have to try this.

The saffron 😂😂😂

Pfffffffffffffft

Sounds epic

its quite amazing the liberties people take in explaining the explosiveness of sealed fermented foods!! they do not have remotely that kind of power, even to explode a glass jar is hard for a ferment ,,and not all ferments can build even that kind of pressure

@@silence-humility-calmness It was a joke! Like when military people stationed in Korea joke about kim-Chi being a land-mine.

@@richardjohnson4052 you win the exchange!! i solute you!!

That sounds incredible

Very interesting! Probably where the Simpsons writers got their catapult from.

I immediately got a vision on Monty Python...Run Away!

Executioner: "This dishonest hag, who goes by the name of Mary the Piss Pitcher, has been found guilty of thinning down the Ale not once, not twice, but THRICE by the Royal Ale Conners. Her life, in the eyes of the law, is thus forfeit as a reminder for all who witness".
ZOINK
"Shriiiiiieeeeeeek"
SPLAT!
I mean, it sounds Medieval all right. Wouldn't even be the most gruesome practice of the time period. Though perhaps a bit excessive for fudging the QC. Glad they only resorted to mechanical dunking. But it does beg the question: Was the practice so common they had to utilize mechanical help to not build a back-log, or did they use the trebuchet solely because it looked scary?

Too much litigation in our country today to try & maintain that kind of historical recreation, someone could “poke an eye out” & then sue (not just wear a patch for life & have a great story for which to scare the kiddies with…arrrrr!

Yep, the Bors Hede Inne is a wonderful place to find some 14th century fare. We've been there for several of the Medieval Feasts they offer during the year. Lots of fun and great food, especially if you come in period garb! Highly recommend!

@@paca_bill4863 I've considered volunteering there but I've never been the theater kid type, seems like it lends itself to the theater kid type of personality.

I have one of their older cookbooks!

Added to my travel wishlist. Thanks!

What?!? I've lived in the Seattle area my entire life and have not heard of this place. How is this possible?!? I am checking it out immediately- Thank you!!

I’ve read that several times as well as his other books. They’re fantastic.

Heh, was thinking about that book the entire time watching this video. More, "Good things to know when being teleported to the past".

Me too! I want to know how average and poor people lived because that was the vast majority of the population.

Than you will like Kingdom come: Deliverance

@rnabo031 I love it. It is one of my all-time favorites, and I remember being so excited when they first announced it.

Came here to say just that. They usually "pop up", during early wine season, so when you can get the first "Federweiße" (German term for partially fermented young wine).

Neueswein? That's what it was called near Mannheim when I lived there.

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 "Neuer Wein" and "Federweißer" are two names for the same thing.

I think this is also the origin of witch’s or at least the out fit and cauldron stereo type

​@ThePokemap I was looking for someone to comment on that. I think I saw an article in the Smithsonian about women brewmasters and witch iconography.

How old are you now???? 8-900??

Thanks for that cool share. 🎉
How lucky you are to live within a place whose local environmental investments by society still exist.
In the U.S.A. We have some trees still left from this time, for the indigenous people’s lived with bio-mimicry, sustainable resource management, sustainable seasonal migration, & smaller communities- knowledge a little more naturally “alchemical”. Still, I love and am grateful to be able to be present in both, for different reasons. 🤎💚💛🧡

Wait until Joe Biden gets ahold of that bridge.

The city still has its roman wall ! Aswell as a 14c house that was physically moved to save it .

​@@kavalogue
They don't put salt in their food, helps em live longer

I'm pretty sure he did one, couple of years (has it been years?) back.

There's a lot of Meads on sale in the UK, most I'd say or at least the ones more readily available, that have been "back sweetened" or flavoured with various fruit/herbs.
It's kind of hard to get hold of a good mead that has been completely fermented.
And as you say, it's dry and clean, but expensive as it comes from smaller, specialist makers.
My son in law makes mead, unfortunately he's not that good at it TBH. But he tries....and it's pretty alcoholic so it hits the spot, lol.

As a former bee keeper, myself, I totally relate, and agree. It's been 25 years since I last kept bees or made a batch, but I still have a few bottles, and the last time I had some it was still quite flowery, and incredibly smooth. Mead (like honey) lasts a *very* long time.

Hello fellow home-brewer. I'd love to see Max do a video on "Pyment", which is an old method (popular with the Romans) of bulking up a poor grape crop's sugar content with honey. It can make an interestingly complex tipple with the honey notes working well with the grape.

J draper is a great channel.

😂 let’s make it happen

Did someone say "smite"? ⚔️🛡
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So a papercut is now a paper-smite?? Talk about a hypochondriacs dream injury.

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 I'm not sure that "smite" does double duty as a noun and verb.

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059what’s a hypochondriac

hey thanks , answered my question . they just kept adding to the same pot .

​@@kellygable1668 People added what they had, either what they could harvest in their garden (if they were lucky enough to have one) or whatever was cheap in the shops. Meat might not be added for weeks if money was short. As a result, the flavour varied almost daily. In bad times it might be almost a soup. In good times it would have beef and lots of vegetables. The gravy was so dark it was almost black. Each day water was added as well.
The taste was unbelievably good. These days I sometimes make a stew in a slow cooker and leave it for several days bubbling away. Not as good, but a nice reminder of times past.

Did she ever clean the pot during those years? Wouldn't the inside of the pot gradually get more and more coated with layers of old food?

Also known in my area as a stock pot.

The rule... I think... would be once any meat or bone was added... nothing could be taken from the pot for a good 12 - 24 hours... ie the time needed to kill any added germs. A crockpot will work the same way...ie if you toss a chicken in a crockpot and have a feed 3 hours later.... you will get very sick... wait 24 hours... And you will be fine.(personal experience)... keep to this rule and the crockpot will feed you Forever.

I can hear them giggling at that😂it's like "aye course' eh got the fallin' sickness." kkkhhh *chuckle*

A quick check of Danish and Dutch languages has aeg and eirien, which might suggest the influence of Scandinavian and Germanic languages in north and southern regions of England

Eggs in German is actually "Eier"

In Dutch we say "eieren" and sound like eyren...

It blows my mind that there's such prestige and history to the restaurant/inn you work at. 750 years. And then on the other side of Europe there's Sean's bar that's just been existing since the 12th century some 1000 and something years old. Do you honestly think the people who started these establishments thought they'd exist that long? Absolutely crazy

I miss the elves most of all. Elves should exist, the world is lessened by their absence.

I smell dendrophile propaganda, do not believe the daggerhead lies.
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That actually depends on the ethilic quality of your libation.
I assure you, dear traveller, that after a few mugs, the pointy-ears and those rough beasts start to come in for a pint.

Maybe only the princess got to eat the choicest part of a hairy, great tusked boar.

@zenn
Except that reminds me of American Werewolf in London.

Saffron was a lot cheaper back then, a lot of it is grown in Afghanistan, and areas like that. War makes exports more dangerous and therefore more expensive. It wasn't always grown during times of war.

Saffron was grown in England, making it cheaper than imported spices. Still fancy, but not cloves and mace fancy.

Yeah that seems like the kind of meal a traveling noble would spring for, or something made for a common meal at a king’s court.

Saffron is not very expensive when added to dishes, because of how little you need.
Though it was probably the super nice dish for travelling merchants to keep their morale up, with how much meat 🥩 is in it.
So basically like the fancy, nice stuff you find in travel locations like airports 🛫 and motorway 🛣 services.
The idea being, it is okay to indulge, because the trip is more useful than the extra cost of the food.

​@@rayf6126- saffron back then also had the bees that pollinated the saffron
We killed all those bees off by human interference
Saffron is now pollinated by human hands - that's why it's so expensive

What great narration! ❤

It is funny that I have also witnessed electricity come to my village even though I am a millennial (1982 born in rural India).
I can find parallels to many of the things mentioned in this video even though food, language and the habits are different.

It's unfortunate to learn that these ways of life will soon be gone, if they aren't completely already.

@@patmalloy3569 happy for it to be gone. It is one thing to watch a KRplus video about how was it to be without electricity and altogether a different reality to live without electricity.

this is incredibly well written.

Sounds delightful! Tell Boccaccio I say sup.

@@TastingHistory **wipes away a tear** I'm so happy someone got the reference!

Wait until you learn how to put the devil into hell! It’s a real knee slapper! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@GiselleMFeuilletmy favorite book!!

Lovely time, that, but sorrowful too.

See, it still happens today!

Interesting. I live in Nova Scotia, and both terms are used. I myself (maybe incorrectly) use cinnamon roll, when referring to the raised (yeasted) type. If you read this Wiki entry on National variations, you will they mention Canada as calling them buns… but that may be a regional thing.

Or Soda and Pop for sugared carbonated beverages. Same. As. It. Ever. Was.

It heavily depends on where you go in Canada. I live in Ontario and I've always known them as both.

Travel to California from Connecticut and ask for a "hard roll".

Banana beer sounds amazing, I'd love to try it.

​@@CrizzyEyesIt's kind of an acquired taste. Take alka seltzer 😄 They have a version in a can called Akarusho, but it's not so good. Bit overpowering.

now i can tell my dad he had a misadventure while skiiing (someone else crashed into him)

thank you for adding to my autistic hoard of trivia information and grammar

In other words, they went on an adventure and failed in some unexpected but not unreasonable or unusual way.

@@Llortnerof
Yup.
All those corpses on Mount Everest?
Deaths by misadventure.

Basically, an accidental death caused by a risk voluntarily taken by the deceased person. That would be the official definition of death by misadventure.

I love Jenny Draper of London. She is entertaining, funny and smart.😀

Love J Draper!!!

That would be such a FUN collab tbh

Hopefully Max will take one of Jenny's tours - they can do a video together.

He was just kidding

"Then smite your meat." --Max Miller

It makes sense that eyren was the word used in the south then as that is where the germanic settlers were compared to the Vikings further north with their eggs. England is a big cocktail of different invasions and migrations which explains the mess that is the language.

In German it's "Eier"

Are they open year round or just seasonally? (I saw a lot of comments about the Besenwirtschaft which seemed seasonal, did I understand right?)

@@matthewblackwelder6487 Year round mostly. Each Zoigl usually publishes their own calender with opening times.

@@matthewblackwelder6487 If it is a true "Besen" (without a traditional gastronomic license) they are required by law to open for no more than four months per year, usually split into two (early spring and late fall). Opening a third time is also prohibited.

Even I noticed that quote. Great!

Sounds amazing. Creating this as a full time community in NC. With similar tavern feel...stew 9 days old... Healings and life is natural. Do wish we could invite SOME orcs and whatnot...for a little spice

lucky you, so many vids to watch- enjoy😊