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Thonolan's and Jetamio's Promise
| VH 11, 192 |
Jetamio and Thonolan kneeled to allow the healer and spiritual guide to place a crown of fresh-budding hawthorn on each of their heads. |
| VH 11, 193 |
The young couple were first brought a mildly alcoholic drink made of dandelion blossoms and honey that had fermented since the last new moon. |
| VH 11, 193 |
Planked whitefish, caught in fish traps that morning and baked near the open fire, was presented to Thonolan and Jetamio by Markeno and Tholie, their counterpart family of Ramudoi. Tangy wood sorrel that had been boiled and beaten to a pulp was served as a sauce. (...)
"Beechnuts, collected last fall," she said, and went on to explain in detail how they were stripped of their leathery outer skins with sharp little flint blades, then carefully roasted by shaking them with hot coals in flat platter-shaped baskets kept moving to prevent scorching, and finally rolled in sea salt.
"Tholie brought the salt," Jetamio said. "It was part of her bride gift." |
| VH 11, 194-195 |
Other small edibles were passed: pickled ash keys that had been soaking in brine, and fresh pignuts. The small tuber resembled wild carrot, a sweet groundnut Jondalar was familiar with, and the first taste was nutty, but the hot aftertaste of radish was a surprise. (...) a rich chamois stew and a deep red bilberry wine. (...)
"It's flavored with the dried leaves of // bog myrtle. The bark is used in tanning the chamois skins - that's what gives them the yellow color. It grows in marshes (...)" |
| VH 11, 196 |
He speared a vegetable out of his wooden bowl (...) "What is named this?" he asked her. "In Zelandoni is called 'mushroom'."
Tholie told him the word for the shaggy cap mushroom in her language and in Sharamudoi. Then
he speared a green stalk and held it up questioningly.
"That's the stem of young burdock," (...) "Burdock," she said, showing him the large, downy,
gray-green leaf parts that had been torn from the stem. (...) Then she held out a long, broad, green
leaf with an unmistakable odor. (...)
"I didn't know garlic grew in leaf like that. (...) "What is name?"
"Ramsons," she said. Tholie had no Mamutoi name for it, but she did for the piece of dried leaf
Jetamio next held out.
"Seaweed," she said. "I brought that with me. It grows in the sea, and it thickens the stew." |
| VH 11, 197 |
"A cup of wine, then. Thonolan, you wouldn't turn down a cup of Tamio's wonderful bilberry wine, would you?" |
| VH 11, 198 |
Spirits were high - the blue bilberries had been especially sweet last fall, and the wine was stronger
than usual. |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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