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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Fine art or big game?
I'm not really sure if this is fine art or something a leopard left in a tree
to come back and eat later. In any case, I like it, so here it is.
How peculiar. Perhaps some of the Merry Men had their wicked way in Sherwood Forest. Post coitum omne animal triste est. A wonderful study in roots. I can remember England before Dutch Elm Disease changed the country forever and I have watched as slowly but surely we have concreted over the equivalent of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire in the last forty years. We were far more wooded back in the day and I have to say that what with the driftwood for our beaches and the woods today, I didn't realize I miss England's trees as much as I do.
Having originated in West Texas, I was always impressed by how green England is. I have learned, however, that there used to be a lot more forests. And then there was that time I went to the New Forest in Hampshire expecting to see trees only to find relatively few. I was told by the locals that in that case, "forest" was a legal term relating to land rights and not a literal woodsy area.
Yes, it is not strictly a densely wooded area. Forest - modern French forêt - ultimately derives from the Latin forestis, originally "forest preserve, game preserve", from the legal sense of the Latin "forum" as a "court" or "judgment" - in other words "land subject to a ban", the ban restraining "strangers" or "foreigners" from hunting on that land, the word "foreigner" equally deriving from the word "forum". It was "land beyond the park" - Latin parcus - which was land being the main or centrally fenced woodland belonging to an estate. The New Forest in Hampshire was land effectively sequestered common land, confiscated to create a hunting ground for William the Conqueror, where hunting became a capital offence for the ordinary people. Alongside Magna Carta (1215) under King John, there was also the Carta Forestia (Charter of the Forest) of 1217 which re-established traditional rights under common law for free men and charcoal burners to have access to the land. (I have seen one of the few extant copies which is in private hands.)
How peculiar. Perhaps some of the Merry Men had their wicked way in Sherwood Forest. Post coitum omne animal triste est. A wonderful study in roots. I can remember England before Dutch Elm Disease changed the country forever and I have watched as slowly but surely we have concreted over the equivalent of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire in the last forty years. We were far more wooded back in the day and I have to say that what with the driftwood for our beaches and the woods today, I didn't realize I miss England's trees as much as I do.
ReplyDeleteHaving originated in West Texas, I was always impressed by how green England is. I have learned, however, that there used to be a lot more forests. And then there was that time I went to the New Forest in Hampshire expecting to see trees only to find relatively few. I was told by the locals that in that case, "forest" was a legal term relating to land rights and not a literal woodsy area.
DeleteYes, it is not strictly a densely wooded area. Forest - modern French forêt - ultimately derives from the Latin forestis, originally "forest preserve, game preserve", from the legal sense of the Latin "forum" as a "court" or "judgment" - in other words "land subject to a ban", the ban restraining "strangers" or "foreigners" from hunting on that land, the word "foreigner" equally deriving from the word "forum". It was "land beyond the park" - Latin parcus - which was land being the main or centrally fenced woodland belonging to an estate. The New Forest in Hampshire was land effectively sequestered common land, confiscated to create a hunting ground for William the Conqueror, where hunting became a capital offence for the ordinary people. Alongside Magna Carta (1215) under King John, there was also the Carta Forestia (Charter of the Forest) of 1217 which re-established traditional rights under common law for free men and charcoal burners to have access to the land. (I have seen one of the few extant copies which is in private hands.)
DeleteI don't know about any leopard leaving anything, but I definitely see something to eat!!!
ReplyDeleteI was waiting for someone to mention that, and there you go, thank you.
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