Stichelton obtained from the original producer by Hodgson's colleague, and subsequently kept alive for fifteen years. Stichelton is made in a dairy, from the unpasteurised milk of Friesian-Holstein cows at Collinthwaite Farm, on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire. "ForbesLife" magazine described it as a "sumptuous cheese that sets a full-flavored, succulent, complex chain of sensations going in your mouth: fruity and salty, buttery, and earthy, sharp and creamy. Robin Hood never had it so good." The starter culture for the cheese is known as MT36, the original culture used in the pre-1989 unpasteurised Stiltons, and is different from the culture that
En saga told his biographer, Karl Ekman, that the result of this invitation was the orchestral tone poem "En saga". Later in life, however, Sibelius dismissed Kajanus's influence, telling a second biographer, Eric Ringbom, in the 1950s that "En saga" actually had not been the result Kajanus's offer: "... Nothing came of it. Instead I completed the orchestral work I had already started and to which I gave the name "En saga" ... I did not comply with his request ... to write 'a short "Da capo" piece'". That Sibelius's statements to Ekman and to Ringbom are inconsistent is, perhaps, a sign