Animal Legends and Lore

[Tshokwane]

(01-05-2018, 08:46 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Perhaps no other animal has inspired legends of strength and valor as much as the brown bear, which appears in traditional tales of virtually every culture in the Northern Hemisphere.

One of the world's oldest written stories, composed sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries, is that of the Danish warrior Bodvar Bjarki ( Bawth-var bee-Yar-kee ), known in Germanic folklore as Beowulf.

 I recall reading something that said that sometimes, when telling tales or stories, or talking about a god, when people talked about a wolf, or the classic "big bad wolf" they were instead referring to a bear.

I don't remember the exact reason why they didn't or couldn't explicitely speak about the bear, but I thought it was interesting. Reply