I am reading this version of Tristan an Iseult for a class: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14244/14244-h/14244-h.htm and it says “He fitted out a great ship and loaded it with corn and wine, with honey and all manner of good things”. I am confused because I thought corn was cultivated by Indigenous Americans and English people did not know about it until they invaded the continent hundreds of years later? Does corn reference something else in this context, since Tristan and Iseult was created in England in the 12th century? Is it a translation thing?
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This is just a language problem due to the word “corn” (meaning “grain”) having evolved relatively recently to mean “maize” in American English, as explained by u/Trevor_Culley in a previous answer here.