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Swine Hunting - IX Century

Swine Hunting - 9th Century.jpg The Unearthing of a FoxThumbnailsSpearing a Boar—XIV. CenturyThe Unearthing of a FoxThumbnailsSpearing a Boar—XIV. CenturyThe Unearthing of a FoxThumbnailsSpearing a Boar—XIV. CenturyThe Unearthing of a FoxThumbnailsSpearing a Boar—XIV. CenturyThe Unearthing of a FoxThumbnailsSpearing a Boar—XIV. Century

The engraving represents a Saxon chieftain, attended by his huntsman and a couple of hounds, pursuing the wild swine in a forest, taken from a manuscriptal painting of the ninth century in the Cotton Library.