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A lord would want to hunt not just any deer, but a mature stag in good condition, partly for the extra meat and fat it would carry, but also for prestige. Hence, a hart could be designated "a hart of grease", (a fat stag), "a hart of ten", (a stag with 10 points on its antlers) or "a royal hart" (a stag which had been hunted by a royal personage).
The Muckle Hart of Benmore [a] was the name given to a red deer stag that was stalked (hunted) by the 19th-century naturalist and hunter Charles William George St John. [1] In his book Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, he described the continuous hunt of the stag for six days and five nights, culminating in its dramatic demise on 1 October 1833. [2]
Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world.
The stag (hart, hind or deer) and the vine is a formerly popular and widely translated fable by Aesop. It is numbered 77 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable and its history
Deer hunting. The king of all the wild animals was the deer, and more precisely the hart, which is an adult male of the red deer. The hart was classified by the number of tines, or points, on its antlers. An animal should have at least ten tines to be considered worthy of hunting; this was referred to as a "hart of ten."
A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC. Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples located all over the world, such as object of worship, the incarnation of deities, the object of heroic quests and deeds, or as magical disguise or enchantment/curse for princesses and princes in many folk and fairy tales.
Carey Hart shares a proud post about his and Pink's daughter, Willow, doing musical theater this summer. Pink and Carey Hart's Daughter, Willow, Stars in ‘Grease’ and ‘High School Musical ...
13th-century English illuminated manuscript depicting St Eustace and the white hart. White deer hold a place in the traditions of many cultures. They are considered to be messengers from the otherworld in some Celtic mythology; [citation needed] they also played an important role in other pre-Indo-European cultures, especially in the north. [2]