Anglo-Saxon rulers had mostly vegetarian diets until the Vikings arrived, according to a recent study by Cambridge University.
, published in the journal Anglo-Saxon England on April 20, suggests that peasants would host lavish meat-heavy feasts for the elite instead of paying them with food as an exploitative levy.
She then compared them to indicators of social rank, such as grave items, corpse position, and grave orientation, and discovered no link between high protein diets and social standing. This new evidence, combined with Leggett’s findings from the previous study, suggests that the large amounts of meat mentioned in these historical food lists were likely only eaten on special occasions.
"That means that a lot of ordinary farmers must have been there, and this has big political implications," Lambert said.
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