Today is Leek Day for me. :) I love leeks, and there has been a fabulous leek season this year! I have some beauties that Im getting ready to pre-chop and keep in the fridge for daily use - I think I use them even more than I use regular onions, because of their wonderful, buttery taste (without adding any butter!) when theyre sautéed with chicken broth. Theyre definitely one of my favorite vegetables. Today while doing some research, I discovered that theres even a rune associated with leeks, which I hadnt known. According to Wikipedia: *Laguz or *Laukaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune, *laguz meaning water or lake and *laukaz meaning leek. In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called lagu ocean. In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called lögr waterfall in Icelandic and logr water in Norse. The corresponding Gothic letter is named lagus. The rune is identical in shape to the letter l in the Raetic alphabet. The leek hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate *laukaz, a symbol of fertility, see the Bülach fibula. (Ill include the link below.)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:24:24 +0000
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