The WORST medieval creature
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2023
- Jason Kingsley, the Modern Knight, discusses one of the most disruptive and useful medieval animals. What is it and why was it so important? #historyfacts #history #medieval
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Having worked on a farm that kept modern pigs, I can tell you I never think of them as plump little squeakers. They're cunning massive tricksters that will escape their pens whenever it's least convenient... like clockwork.
Given the fact that a feral hog can easily kill a person and is shockingly fast, going into the woods without a horse must have been quite the adventure if you heard a pig scream near you 😅
Please don't use AI-generated art for your front image, good ser. There are many artists like myself who would be glad to make you a real piece of art you can use.
I live in Hawaii, where there's a thriving wild boar population. They're classic ancient boars. Big, deadly tusks, packed with muscle, black skin, covered with long wiry bristles. Their screams come straight from a horror movie. They cause serious damage by breaking fences and demolishing gardens. A full-grown boar can weigh 200lbs/90kg, and never assume that they're 200lbs/90kg of lazy, and won't chase you down. My big brother is a hunter, and we shared ownership of a couple dogs. He and his hunting buddies had a pack that they use to track and take down pigs. Everyone in the party, man and dog (usually dog), would often turn up with massive, ugly gashes. As a kid I was warned never to go near a baby pig, because a mama is always nearby. Bear rules apply.
In doing some family history research I found that one of my ancestor's claim to fame was that he killed the last wild boar of Westmoreland. For doing that he received a 4,000 acre estate. There's also a poem written about it called “Minstrels of Winandermere.”
I also want to mention just how nice this comment section is. You should be proud of this Jason. Cultivating a viewership that is kind and friendly to one another is no small thing.
I grew up on a farm. Pigs are quite formidable creatures. When I was a child, a woman in my area was killed by her own pigs. Her small child was crying, and it triggered the pigs. The lady got her child out of the pen but they knocked her down before she could climb the fence.
"domesticated" pigs can revert pretty quickly to a wild form, if you let them free in a year tops will regrow fur and act more aggressively. Not a boar but still very tanky
Pigs are still turned out into the New Forest (southern England) in the autumn. The New Forest is known for free-range ponies and these can suffer from eating too many acorns. The pigs are able to eat the acorns and so keep the ponies safe.
I came across a magazine article some years ago that was about hogs. A varmint hunter of feral hogs was interviewed. In his opinion, there were 2 kinds of people in the world: "Them that has pigs, & them that WILL have pigs".
Portuguese here.
In Ireland, the landlords would lend a piglet to each tenant every year so that they could fatten it on scraps then sell it to pay rent and pay back the price of the piglet. They were a tall, thin sort of pig called an Irish greyhound. There was a good poem about these Irish pigs which I'll paste below for anyone who wants to read.
Had a friend in college come in late one day and said a hog messed up his truck. I was thinking "How did Wilbur" mess up a truck?"
Last autumn I visited a manor in the Netherlands where pigs are kept basically wild in the forest. It is amazing to see how fast even piglets can turn pristine ground into a battle field.
I guessed wild boar! I live in Asia and wild boars can still be a serious problem in the rural places. These creatures are tough, aggressive and scary. I never realised that pigs were so ubiquitous in mediaeval European societies. They were important in ancient China - the Chinese character for 'house' is basically the character for 'pig' with the character for 'roof' over it. So if you had a roof over your head, and a pig in your backyard, you had a house.
The more I watch these videos, the more I am convinced that Sir Jason is secretly an immortal that decided to do something with his first-hand knowledge of medieval life...
It's funny how medieval art always seems like badly drawn cartoons, then you realize it's actually pretty accurate.
I have a cousin who grows out a couple of pigs most years. The full scale domestic variety is still a dangerous animal, and they are also quite good escape artists.
As a young child, my daily evening chore was to feed the pig the meal my mom had prepared for it. It would be butchered every fall. We would empty the pen of dirt and "stuff" every spring before getting the new pig. The dirt and stuff was then dumped on the vegetable garden. It sure made things grow! Lots of memories.
In Spain, a few towns still practice having a “comunal pig” though I suppose in medieval times it would’ve been a “comunal herd”. Basically this pig is allowed free roam and the whole town feeds it scraps etc, and when the time comes, the town enjoys a nice dinner