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Mick Harper
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If it's recognisable as mead it would surely be susceptible to a carbon test.
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Streoneshalh the original name of Whitby.

Strain looks an obvious try given the name of Bede's book."Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum."

Strain

"line of descent, lineage, breed, ancestry," c. 1200, from Old English strion, streon "a begetting, procreation," also "a gain, acquisition, treasure;" from Proto-Germanic *streu-nam- "to pile up" (from PIE *streu-, extended form of root *stere- "to spread").

Hence "race, stock, line" (early 14c.). Applied to animal species from c. 1600; usually involving fairly minor variations, but not distinct from breed (n.). Of microbes by 1897. The general sense of "sort, kind, style" is from 1590s. Normal sound development would have yielded *streen, but the word was altered in late Middle English, apparently by influence of strain (n.1).

also from c. 1200

CF Stranger

late 14c., straunger, "unknown person, foreigner, one who comes from another country," from strange + -er (1) or else from Old French estrangier "foreigner" (Modern French étranger), from estrange. Latin used the adjective extraneus as a noun to mean "stranger."

By 15c. as "not a citizen of a nation, not a member of a religious group, craft, family, etc." The English noun never picked up the secondary sense of the adjective. Also from late 14c. as "traveler, transient," As a form of address to an unknown person, it is recorded from 1817, American English rural colloquial. The meaning "one who has stopped visiting" (often with reminder to not be one) is recorded from 1520s.

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