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Swine Hunting - IX Century

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Swine Hunting - 9th Century.jpg Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500ThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500ThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500ThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500ThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500ThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. 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.