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This must be one of the earliest descriptions of what is now considered an important part of traditional Polish hospitality, that is, forcing more food and drink down one's guests' throats than they are able to ingest. I can almost hear Wirsing and King Casimir urge their commensals with "You should try this one too! Just a little piece. But you must! Aren't you gonna drink with me?"
Later descriptions of the banquet often stress the lavishness of golden and silver tableware, which is probably how some historians have interpreted the mentions of expensive gifts that were presented to the visiting monarchs. This may have been influenced by analogy with to a chronicler's account of another famous banquet from Poland's medieval history – the one in Gniezno, AD 1000, where Duke Boleslav the Brave entertained Emperor Otto III and impressed him so much that Otto made Boleslav Poland's first king.
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