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Icelandic medieval monastic sites: Icelandic plant-names and plants in a historical context. pre Linnaean historical / early botanical Pinax theatri botanici 1623/1671. post-Linnaean Species plantarum 1753 scientific horticultural botanical. vernacular
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Icelandic medieval monastic sites:Icelandic plant-names and plants in a historical context
pre Linnaean historical / early botanical Pinax theatri botanici 1623/1671 post-Linnaean Species plantarum1753 scientific horticultural botanical vernacular folk-botanical equivalents
Malva sp. edible greens kál kaal kail kål Rumex sp. Brassica sp.
sandhafrar villihveiti villikorn blaðka melstöng Leymus arenarius melgresi sumtag sumtagsnál sandgras
Angelica archangelica hvannarót ætihvönn hvannjóli graðhvönn brjóst-hvönn englajurt englarót erkikvönn geitla
Argentina anserina, tágamura Medieval names: akrmura, mora, mura, pastinaca
Collected – Leymus arenarius • Favoured but growing wild – Argentina anserina • Cultivated – Angelica archangelica • Imported –
Allium S - • Argentina anserina - V • Artemisia - V • Bistorta vivipara - V • Borago officinalis S - • Brassica sp. S - • Malus sylvestris S - • Menyanthes trifoliata - V • Myrica gale - V • Plantago major S V • Sanguisorba off. - V • Urtica sp. S V • Valeriana officinalis - V
Bær 1030-1050? Monastery? Missionary bishop Rúðólfur: school, garden etc. ??? • Laukaflatir – (old)name of a small field where the laukr is still growing • The villilaukr is reported growing in Bær by Björn Halldórsson in Grasnýtjar 1783
Medieval laws:laukagarðr 13th century?? The bishop of Hólar died in the laukagarðr at Hólar in 1457 Hólar 2009
Bær 1030-1050? Monastery? Missionary bishop Rúðólfur: school, garden etc. ??? • Laukaflatir – (old)name of a small field where the laukr is still growing • The villilaukr is reported growing in Bær by Björn Halldórsson in Grasnýtjar 1783 • Medieval laws:laukagarðr 13th century (Norwegian influence?) • The bishop of Hólar died in the laukagarðr at Hólar in 1457 • Skáney– (close to Bær) German ”surgeon” Lazarus Mattheusson 1527-1570 • Tautra monastery in Norway (1207- ) the Allium oleraceum is growing there today