Note 344 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.

Arab. “Sawík,” the old and modern name for native frumenty, green grain (mostly barley) toasted, pounded, mixed with dates or sugar and eaten on journeys when cooking is impracticable. M. C. de Perceval (iii. 54), gives it a different and now unknown name; and Mr. Lane also applies it to “ptisane.” It named the “Day of Sawaykah” (for which see Pilgrimage ii. 19), called by our popular authors the “War of the Meal-sacks.”