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Taran is a fictional character from Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series of novels. Serving as the series's central protagonist, he is first introduced as the assistant pig-keeper at Caer Dallben charged with the care of Hen Wen, the oracular white pig.
Pig, hog, or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. Shoat (or shote), piglet, or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig [23] Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning; Weaner, a young pig recently separated from the sow
In Lloyd Alexander's books The Chronicles of Prydain, based on Welsh mythology, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd. So he is in the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron . The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott 's novel Ivanhoe is a swineherd.
The pig organ is so healthy, she said, that if she had waited to be sicker than she was ‒ if she had been as sick as they were ‒ she believes she could not have made it either.
Breed Origin Height Weight Color Image Aksai Black Pied: Kazakhstan: 167–182 cm: 240–320 kg (530–710 lb) Black and White--- American Yorkshire: United States
While Alexander's experience in World War Two informs the Prydain series as a whole, some specific instances inspired events in The High King. One notable case is Alexander's involvement in Alsace-Lorraine under Alexander Patch directly inspiring an episode where Taran and the companions nearly freeze to death near Annuvin and fight in the snow. [3]
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Grant Bardsley as Taran, a pig-keeper who wants to become a warrior. Susan Sheridan as Princess Eilonwy, a brave princess who accompanies Taran in his travel. Freddie Jones as Dallben, a farmer and Taran's master. Nigel Hawthorne as Fflewddur Fflam, a bard who plays the lyre, and accompanies Taran in his travel.