King Arthur riding a goat+fighting a cat, Otranto mosaic, 1163-5, Italy #InternationalCatDay http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Sicily%20&%20S%20Italy/Puglia/Otranto/Otranto.htm …pic.twitter.com/Ii144IqGY4
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The 13thC Estoire de Merlin has King Arthur fighting the cat nr Dent du Chat, Savoie, France https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Dent_du_Chat_depuis_le_Molard_Noir.JPG …pic.twitter.com/hl1pdUAf8y
A feline shaped jar, Chimu culture, Peru 11th-15thC; in @bristolmuseum #InternationalCatDaypic.twitter.com/r6upeA30fd
Two gold+garnet lions, found Russia & said to be L4th/E5thC, via http://streetart-ekb.livejournal.com/641913.html #InternationalCatDaypic.twitter.com/mSQEie8cH6
Cats in Anglo-Saxon England - a recent paper reviewing the archaeological+other evidence :) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10816-014-9208-9 …pic.twitter.com/dUEWUzQAis
9thC Viking cats on the backboard of the Oseberg Cart :) #InternationalCatDay Pic via http://norseandviking.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/viking-cats-and-kittens-ii.html …pic.twitter.com/rYyYjIUeYF
any theory why they (cats or stoats) are holding their paws on their head? Interesting blogpost:)
I fear I incline to cats! And that's a good question, not sure, but it does make them even more fun...! ;)
Hmm...this is quite unlike the King Arthur stories I grew up with!
But more in accord with the character of the earliest stratum of the legend! :)
True, I'm sure, but I like my romantic fantasies to be served up just the way I remember them!
Ah, I know what you mean, but the raw folkloric power of the early material does get to me! Giants, witches, demonic toads etc!
The whole category of things that go bump in the night! We love being pulled from our comfort zones so long as we can return
Compare also Diodorus Siculus on Menes, the first pharaoh (dogs forcing him into Lake Moeris).pic.twitter.com/uGJ9ipeqrx
What an interesting origin story!
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