[ANSTHRLD] heraldic beavers

[Tim McDaniel]

<http://coblaith.net/Heraldry/Beavers/default.html>

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Eldwin Nightowl <eldwin at loveshade.org> wrote:
> However, you know how if someone likes 49 things and doesn't like 1
> they'll talk about the one? I read the opening sentence and I
> don't understand it. It looks like maybe two sentences got
> combined into one or some such. "Beavers were often pictured in
> medieval bestiaries as dog-like animals, sought by hunters for the
> medicinal value of their testicles and prone, as a means of
> self-preservation, to biting them off and running away without
> them."

It makes sense to me as is, though you could split them into two
sentences and add a bit of a bridge.

"Beavers were often pictured in medieval bestiaries as dog-like
animals. They were said to have been sought by hunters for the
medicinal value of their testicles and therefore were prone, as a
means of self-preservation, to biting them off and running away
without them."

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com