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Quotation from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
“when the brute lives, and is in the charge of a Saxon slave, she goes by her Saxon name; but becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles”
Ivanhoe, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #82)
The jester explains to Gurth that Saxon thralls tend the swine while Norman lords eat the pork, a joke about language and conquest.
Citation: "when the brute lives, and is in the charge of a Saxon slave, she goes by her Saxon name; but becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles" — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #82). (id ivanhoe-q1)
