tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post8567268472912755600..comments2023-12-22T20:36:45.744-05:00Comments on Isle of Wonder: You Say Dead Sheep, I Say Mutton.The Red Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-35101600926153033672017-10-22T12:17:01.937-04:002017-10-22T12:17:01.937-04:00True multones applied to sheep but in the context ...True multones applied to sheep but in the context of the First Crusade, its appearance in that passage made no sense interpreted as 'sheep'.The Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-29542011590553336352017-10-20T07:12:50.365-04:002017-10-20T07:12:50.365-04:00In 1349, a guy was complaining that sixty of his &...<br />In 1349, a guy was complaining that sixty of his "multones" had been taken, in a plea of Trespass: see first entry in<br /><br />http://aalt.law.uh.edu/E3/CP40no357/aCP40no357mm1toEnd/IMG_7601.htm<br /><br />the enormous number of such items does suggest sheep to me , and since the word abdux... is used rather than asport..., does suggest that they had legs !<br />Rosemary Simonsrosemary simonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06536682885155430336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-67644404780735311092010-05-10T04:44:20.411-04:002010-05-10T04:44:20.411-04:00" I found one article online, which I should ..." I found one article online, which I should have bookmarked because I am unable to find it now, which suggested that the word was derived from coins minted by the Franks called 'multones' which had the Agnus Dei or Lamb of God on one side and may be where we get the word 'mutton' from."<br /><br /><br />http://books.google.pl/books?id=zCUwAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA103&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-85225152557789163352010-05-09T11:21:20.861-04:002010-05-09T11:21:20.861-04:00the word was derived from coins minted by the Fran...<i>the word was derived from coins minted by the Franks called 'multones' which had the Agnus Dei or Lamb of God on one side and may be where we get the word 'mutton' from.</i><br /><br />I guess it's one of those things that is only comprehensible if you are alive at the time, in the same way that the origin of some modern phrases would be unfathomable in 100 years time, Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070070360087765540noreply@blogger.com