Comments | readerravenclaw: Winged Boars

readerravenclaw

Winged Boars

Mar 15, 2005 00:02

One of the aspects of the Harry Potter books that most drew me in was the myriad of details that Rowling includes - because it is those details that, at least for me, make the world of Harry Potter feel so real ( Read more... )

hp discussions

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

tunxeh March 14 2005, 22:30:35 UTC

Apparently King Arthur was called The Boar of Cornwall -- of course Hogwarts is nowhere near Cornwall but there have been some other connections to Arthurian legend in HP: people swear by Merlin, and Arthur, Percy, and Ginevra Weasley have Arthurian names. Not that this explains the wings...

readerravenclaw March 16 2005, 14:31:49 UTC

Yeah, boars were associated with royalty back in those days.... Because back then, the image of the king was the warrior-king image, so kings were associated with the animals that were the feircest.... It's strange to think that male pigs are so incredibly ferocious and dangerous - when I think of pigs, that's certainly not the image that comes to mind! - but apparantly, boars were on all sorts of armor and heralds and used in poetry and stories....

ap_aelfwine April 2 2005, 22:35:39 UTC

It's strange to think that male pigs are so incredibly ferocious and dangerous - when I think of pigs, that's certainly not the image that comes to mind!

That's cos you've never hunted them. :-)

(I've not ever done that, either, but I've got a cousin who thinks them excellent sport; back in the day he'd've been thought a bit the wimp, I expect, for using a bow instead of a spear. :-)

readerravenclaw April 3 2005, 19:14:02 UTC

That's not exactly what I meant. :) It's very true that I've never hunted boars, but I'm a big fantasy reader and medievil historical fiction reader, so I actually do associate the concept of "boar" with feirceness. It's just that I don't associate the concept of pig with "boar". When I say "pig", I mean those big pink (female) pigs that you can find on farms. :)

But wow to your cousin hunting them - I didn't realize people still did, nowadays!

ap_aelfwine April 4 2005, 10:40:40 UTC

It's just that I don't associate the concept of pig with "boar". When I say "pig", I mean those big pink (female) pigs that you can find on farms. :)Oh, I see. Ayup, it is hard to make the link between the two. Even though domestic (male) pigs gone feral are the next thing to wild boar. (And the sows can be quite dangerous as well, I'm told ( ... )

Back to all threads