lagana

Updated: July 15, 2025

They study nature more than splendour, for which reason, the guests being seated in threes, instead of couples as elsewhere, they place the dishes before them all at once upon rushes and fresh grass, in large platters or trenchers. They also make use of a thin and broad cake of bread, baked every day, such as in old writings was called LAGANA; and they sometimes add chopped meat, with broth.

Giraldus Cambrensis - The Description of Wales