North, R;
(2015)
You sexy beast: the pig in a villa in Vandalic North Africa and boar-cults in Old Germanic heathendom.
In: Bintley, MDJ and Williams, TJT, (eds.)
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia.
Boydell Press: Woodbridge, United Kingdom.
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Abstract
This article uses pigs in the scraps of Germanic legend in order to analyse a short epigram on a tame boar in the dining room, by Luxorius, a poet composing in the 520s, not long before the end of the Vandal kingdom in North Africa.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | You sexy beast: the pig in a villa in Vandalic North Africa and boar-cults in Old Germanic heathendom |
| ISBN: | 178327008X |
| ISBN-13: | 9781783270088 |
| Publisher version: | http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Luxorius, The Latin Anthology, The Vandals, Old Norse mythology, Freyr and Gullinbursti, Boar cults in Old Germanic religion. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469890 |
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