“That the Huns and Tartars ate raw meat softened by being carried under the saddle, is a mistake of the chroniclers. At the present time the mounted nomads are accustomed to put thin strips of salted raw meat on their horses’ sores, before saddling them, to bring about a speedy healing. But this meat, impregnated with the sweat of the horse and reeking intolerably, is absolutely uneatable.” The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 1, 1911, S. 340, Digitalisat; siehe auch Craig S. Smith: The Raw Truth: Don’t Blame the Mongols (or Their Horses), New York Times, 6. April 2005.
Mieste Hotopp-Riecke: Der stigmatisierte ‚Andere‘ in Sekundärstereotypen – ‚Tatarennachricht‘ und ‚Hackfleisch Tartar‘ als deutsche Erinnerungsorte. In: Stephan Theilig (Hrsg.): Historische Konzeptionen von Körperlichkeit. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Transformationsprozessen in der Geschichte (= Kulturen – Kommunikation – Kontakte). Band5. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86596-333-8, S.107–136 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
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“That the Huns and Tartars ate raw meat softened by being carried under the saddle, is a mistake of the chroniclers. At the present time the mounted nomads are accustomed to put thin strips of salted raw meat on their horses’ sores, before saddling them, to bring about a speedy healing. But this meat, impregnated with the sweat of the horse and reeking intolerably, is absolutely uneatable.” The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 1, 1911, S. 340, Digitalisat; siehe auch Craig S. Smith: The Raw Truth: Don’t Blame the Mongols (or Their Horses), New York Times, 6. April 2005.
