The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Frontispiece

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u ni v er sit y of v irgini a pr ess | ch a r lottesv ille University of Virginia Press© 2011 by Jeffrey Greene All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2011 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greene, Jeffrey, 1952– The golden-bristled boar : last ferocious beast of the forest / Jeffrey Greene. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8139-3103-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3128-9 (e-book) 1. Wild boar hunting—History. 2. Wild boar hunting— Southern States—History. 3. Wild boar—Mythology. 4. Wild boar in art. I. Title. SK305.W5G74 2011 599.63'32—dc22 2010034082 For Mary and Charles Siebert This page intentionally left blank Brokk then brought out his treasures. . . . To Frey he gave the boar, remarking that night or day it could race across the sky and over the sea better than any other mount. Furthermore, night would never be so murky nor the worlds of darkness so shadowy that the boar would not provide light wherever it went, so bright was the shining of its bristles. —Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda, trans. Byock
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