From Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination by Paul Freedman:
According to the Koran, the fountains of paradise will be scented with ginger, camphor, and musk (p. 80)....The Christian Roman poet Prudentius (A.D. 348-405) described paradise as a place of balsam, spikenard, and "rare cinnamon" (p. 90)....
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