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Post by brobear on Mar 16, 2019 5:09:52 GMT -5
The myths of old show us how the bear was admired by the people. Many children were named from the bear. Men like Beowulf and King Arthur.
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Post by brobear on Dec 21, 2022 7:51:08 GMT -5
Original King of Beasts is where we gather information showing how the people of Europe admired, feared, and sometimes even worshipped the bear, which includes both the brown bear and the cave bear, from the Pleistocene on into the Middle Ages.
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Post by brobear on Jan 12, 2023 4:00:20 GMT -5
Continued.... There are countless simple or compound names based on the roots Ber, Bern, Bera, Born, Beorn, Per, Pern, Bjorn, and so on, all forms derived from the word for bear. With few exceptions, they are masculine names. Moreover, the war god Thor was early on given as surname the common name for bear in Old Norse: bjorn ( Thorbjorn ); in northern Europe, the god of warriors, thunder, and lightning was a thoroughly ursine god. “The 1.5-m- (5-foot) high stone stands in Hune Kirke not far from the excavation and bears the text: ‘Hove, Thorkild, Thorbjørn set their father Runulv den Rådnilde’s stone.’ It is dated to 970-1020 CE.” www.sci.news/archaeology/hune-viking-hall-11560.html
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Post by brobear on Jan 30, 2023 16:08:40 GMT -5
Since it is told plainly in the book, THE BEAR - History of a Fallen King - by Michel Pastoureau, that the bear never lost a fight to a lion in the ancient Roman Circus Games, then I'm sure that there can only be one answer to the debate, "Siberian Tiger v Eurasian Brown Bear". Also note, the difference in size between the Eurasian bear and the Ussuri brown bear is minimal.
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