Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pigsticking is a form of boar hunting done by individuals, or groups of spearmen on foot or on horseback using a specialized boar spear. The boar spear was sometimes fitted with a cross guard to stop the enraged animal driving its pierced body further down the shaft in order to attack its killer before dying. In India, pigsticking was popular ...
Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios.Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, the first public alpha build was released on 17 May 2009.
Boar spear head, c. 1430, length 42 centimeters (17 in). A boar spear is a spear used for boar hunting.It is relatively short and heavy and has two "lugs" or "wings" on the spearsocket behind the blade, which act as a barrier to prevent the spear from penetrating too deeply into the quarry where it might get stuck or break, and to stop an injured and furious boar from working its way up the ...
This page was last edited on 26 September 2018, at 00:55 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
I know of an English colloquialism, "to squeal like a stuck pig," so perhaps "pig-sticking" in English can refer both to an inhumane method of slaughtering a domestic pig and to a blood sport. Dpbsmith 01:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC) As of 2004 pig-sticking is still practiced in Hungary, using domestic pigs rather than wild boars. According to ...
A bear or boar spear from Germany or Austria, c. 1425-50 Bear hunt. A bear spear was a medieval type of spear used in hunting for bears and other large animals. The sharpened head of a bear spear was enlarged and usually took the form of a bay leaf. Right under the head there was a short crosspiece that helped fix the spear in the body of an ...
According to Húsdrápa, Freyr rode Gullinbursti to Baldr's funeral, while in Gylfaginning, Snorri states that Freyr rode to the funeral in a chariot pulled by the boar. The boar is also known as Slíðrugtanni (Old Norse: meaning "Sharp Tooth" or "Fearsome Tooth") [3] (sometimes anglicized to "Slidrugtanni").
A sibyna (Ancient Greek: Σιβύνη and Συβίνη and Συβήνη and Σιβύνιον and Ζιβύνη) was a type of spear [1] [2] [3] [4] used for hunting or ...