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ſuaded to be chriſtened, and called Æthelſtane[1]. Now 'tis certain that Hardicnut ſtands on record as an egregious glutton[2], but he is not particularly famous for being a curious Viander; 'tis true again, that the Danes in general indulged exceſſively in feaſts and entertainments[3], but we have no reaſon to imagine any elegance of Cookery to have flouriſhed amongſt them. And though Guthrum, the Daniſh prince, is in ſome authors named Gormundus[4]; yet this is not the right etymology of our Engliſh word Gormandize, ſince it is rather the French Gourmand, or the Britiſh Gormod[5]. So that we have little to ſay as to the Danes.

I ſhall take the later Engliſh and the Normans together, on account of the intermixture of the two nations after the Conqueſt, ſince, as lord Lyttelton obſerves, the Engliſh accommodated themſelves to the Norman manners, except in point of temperance in eating and drinking, and communicated to them their own habits of drunkenneſs and immoderate feaſting[6]. Eraſmus alſo remarks, that the Engliſh in his time

  1. ↑ Spelm. Life of Ælfred, p. 66. Drake, Eboracum. Append. p. civ.
  2. ↑ Speed's Hiſtory.
  3. ↑ Monſ. Mallet, cap. 12.
  4. ↑ Wilkins, Concil. I. p. 204. Drake, Ebor. p. 316. Append. p. civ. cv.
  5. ↑ Menage, Orig. v. Gourmand.
  6. ↑ Lord Lyttelton, Hiſt. of H. II. vol. iii. p. 49.

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