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
Saga of bishops and translated or recomposed romances. They are sometimes romanticised and fantastic. The term "saga" originates from the Norse "saga" (pl. "sögur"), and refers to (1) "what is said, statement" or (2) "story, tale, history". It is cognate with the English word "saw" (as in "old saw"), and the German "Sage". Icelandic sagas are based on oral traditions and much research has focused on what is real and what is fiction within each tale. The accuracy of the sagas is often hotly disputed. Most of the manuscripts in which the sagas are preserved were taken to Denmark and Sweden