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Arduinna, the eponymous boar-goddess of the Ardennes, rides her ferocious quarry, knife in hand, whilst the boar-god of Euffigneix in the Haute-Marne is portrayed with the motif of a boar with bristles erect, striding along his torso, which implies conflation between the human animal perception of divinity.
The animal fylgja typically came in the form of a dog, but also as various other land or even sea creatures, [11] The particular animal type that the fylgja takes on may reflect the character of the person they represent, akin to a totem animal. Hence fox-like fylgja shadowed a deceitful person, a swan-like form shadowed a beautiful woman. [12]
The boar is closely associated with Freyr and has also been proposed to be a totemic animal to the Swedes, in particular the Yngling royal dynasty who ruled at a cultic centre for the god. [ 2 ] The most familiar Ferguson Clan crest has the three boars on an Azure blue shield with a buckle in the center.
This becomes a recurring topos in later sagas, [6] although we have only these two saga mentions attesting to the custom of making vows on the sacrificial animal. [7] The choice of a boar indicates a connection with Freyr, [8] whose mount is the gold-bristled boar Gullinbursti, [4] [9] and the continuing Swedish tradition of eating pig-shaped ...
The boar was a symbol of war. Tacitus tells us that the Aesti (a Germanic or Celtic tribe) wore boar symbols into battle. On the Celtic Gundestrup cauldron, soldiers wear boar crested helmets. The Roman Legion XX, stationed in Chester, adopted the boar as an emblem. It was also a symbol of the hunt. Celtic hunter-gods depicted with boar imagery ...
In The Gods of the Celts, Miranda Green states that some depictions of Arduinna show her riding a boar. [2] However, Simone Deyts [3] notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar sidesaddle and holding a knife, conserved in the Musée des antiquités nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye, [4] bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by ...
As part of its decoration, the first horn, the larger of the two, depicts two animal headed men facing each other, armed with what appears to be a sickle and a wood-splitting axe. Dated to the early 5th century, these depictions could represent something related to berserkers.
A boar was a dangerous animal: "When the goddess turned a wrathful countenance upon a country, as in the story of Meleager, she would send a raging boar, which laid waste the farmers' fields." [10] Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1634 (Museo del Prado)