Season 5 Episode 7: Familiar Beasts: Cows, Sheep, Goats, Pigs and Horses of the English Bestiary

In Episode 7, and the final episode of Stories From Lore, we’re staying at home with the familiar domestic beasts of the monk’s bestiary. My main reference for this episode is Richard Barber’s translation of the MS Bodley 764 Bestiary. So, grab yourself a cuppa as we walk down the lane to the farm.

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Note - There are some dark folkloric characters explored in this podcast and so, as always, I would recommend that you should listen through first before listening with younger members of your household.

Rare Breeds of the UK:

Goats - English goats, golden Guernsey goats, Bagot goats, Angora goats, British primitive goats, old English goats, British Alpine. Anglo Nubian,

Cows - Ancient cattle of Wales, Albion cows, Dairy shorthorns, Northern dairy short horns, Native Aberdeen angus, Whitebred shorthorn, Gloucester, Shetland, Irish moiled, traditional Hereford, the Chillingham wild cattle, Vaynol, Lincoln red originals, white park, British white,

Sheep - Torwen badger face Welsh mountain sheep, Lonk, Welsh mountain pedigree, Whiteface Dartmoor, Boreray, Devon & Cornwall longwool, Leicester longwool, Lincoln longwool, North Ronaldsay, whitefaced woodland, border Leicester, castlemilk Moorit, Cotswold, Derbyshire gritstone, Dorset Horn, hill Radnor, Manx Loaghtan, Portland, Soay, Teeswater, Wensleydale, Balwen, Devon closewool, Dorset Down, greyface Dartmoor, Llanwenog, Norfolk Horn, Oxford Down,

Pigs – British landrace, British Lop, Large black, middle white, Berkshire, large white, Tamworth, British saddleback, Gloucestershire Old Spots, Oxford Sandy & Black, Welsh,

Horse – Dales Pony, Cleveland Bay Horse, Eriskay Pony, Hackney Horse & Pony, Suffolk Horse, Exmoor pony, Dartmoor pony, Clydesdale Horse, Fell pony, Highland pony, New Forest pony, Shire horse.

References:

Barber, Richard (1993) Bestiary MS Bodley 764, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge

Videen, Hana (2021) The Word Hord: Daily Life In Old English, Profile Books

Rare Breed Survival Trust

https://www.rbst.org.uk/

Music

Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Incidental music - ancient-greece-326845 via Pixabay

Sound Effects via www.orangefreesounds.com & www.pixabay.com

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