Literary notes about lucern (AI summary)
Literary authors use "lucern" in several distinct ways. In many texts it designates a valued forage crop—alfalfa—that plays a significant role in agricultural discussions, noted for its cultivation needs and economic importance ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Meanwhile, the term also appears as a geographical or cultural reference, naming towns, banners, or even vessels, thus evoking historical and national identities ([5], [6], [7], [8]). Additionally, on occasion it emerges in more metaphorical or evocative settings, as when linked with martial imagery or symbolic objects ([9]).
- Lucern ( Medicago sativa ), called by the natives alfa or alfalfa , is reared in great abundance throughout the whole of Peru, as fodder for cattle.
— from Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Johann Jakob von Tschudi - Lucern needs clean land, or cultivation at first, as young plants are tender.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden - Four crops of lucern are taken from the same land in the course of a season.
— from Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker - On these considerations, alone, lucern should prove itself a crop well suited for dry-farming.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe - The banner of Lucern was now for a time in imminent danger, the avoyer having been severely wounded, and several of the principal leaders slain.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin - In the mean time there came a very learned young man from Lucern, of the name of Rudolph Collin; he was to go to Constance to receive priest's orders.
— from The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. by Thomas Platter - Formerly the town was completely surrounded by walls, curtained on the hillside, reminding one of Lucern's "coronal of towers."
— from Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse - Yet the three cantons seventy-one years before put the same number in the field, and the populous state of Lucern had now joined them.
— from The Art of War in the Middle Ages A.D. 378-1515 by Charles Oman - The ‘Lucern Hammer’ was like a halberd, but had three curved prongs instead of the hatchet-blade: it inflicted a horrible jagged wound.
— from The Art of War in the Middle Ages A.D. 378-1515 by Charles Oman
