[Sca-cooks] Description of the Beaver

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

Is the in period beaver of Europe and the British Isles the same as those 
found in North America?  I know that their squirrels and deer were different 
from those of the eastern seaboard  as were, I think, the wolves.

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathleen Gormanshaw" <kgormanshaw at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Description of the Beaver


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
> "I might here intreat largely of other vermin, as the polecat, the 
> miniver,
> the weasel, stote, fulmart, squirrel, fitchew, and such like, which Cardan
> includeth under the word Mustela: also of the otter, and likewise of the
> beaver, whose hinder feet and tail only are supposed to be fish.

> from Modern History Sourcebook: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description
> Of England, 1577 (from Holinshed's Chronicles)

A strong example of the different world-view people had in the middle
ages.  It would never occur to me to think part of an animal could be
a fish.

Eyrny
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