... served in the refectory of that monastery, one refers to the flesh of wild horses, which must therefore have been eaten by the pious brethren. An old German proverb says : " A foal taken from a herd of wild horses will sooner be tamed than a depraved... The Horse and Its Relatives - Page 73by Richard Lydekker - 1912 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
| Victor Hehn - 1885 - 530 pages
...wild hones will sooner be tamed than a depraved man leam to be ashamed." In the " Sachsen-spiegel," where it treats of women's outfit and dowry, it is...the wild borderland between two nationalities ; for Rosslin, in his account of Alsace and the Vosges (Strasburg, 1593), thus circumstantially describes... | |
| William Ridgeway - Civilization - 1905 - 564 pages
...as well as of tame, and wild horses were apparently eaten by the monks of St Gallen about AD 1000. In a Westphalian document of 1316, the fishing, game, and wild horses of a certain forest are assigned to one Herman, and there seem to have been wild horses in the Vosges in Merovingian times... | |
| William Harding Carter - Horses - 1923 - 186 pages
...be served in the refectory of the monastery, about 1000 AD, one refers to the flesh of wild horses. In a Westphalian document of 1316 the fishing, game, and wild horses of a certain forest were definitely apportioned. In a description oif the district of Alsace and the Vosges in 1593, there... | |
| William Ridgeway - 568 pages
...as well as of tame, and wild horses were apparently eaten by the monks of St Gallen about AD 1000. In a Westphalian document of 1316, the fishing, game, and wild horses of a certain forest are assigned to one Herman, and there seem to have been wild horses in the Vosges in Merovingian times... | |
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