Though the breed is famous for its use in exterminating badgers and badger-baiting, dachshunds were also commonly used for rabbit and fox hunting, for locating wounded deer, and in packs were known to hunt game as large as wild boar and as fierce as the wolverine.

It is said that one day, he saw a wild boar and proclaimed, " I want to kill Soga Umako like this wild boar.

The mountain is home to many animal species including the mouflon and wild boar, two species that flourish despite the continuous influx of tourists.

He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Skíðblaðnir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used.

Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi.

The goddess Freyja is nuzzled by the boar Hildisvíni while gesturing to Hyndla ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

The Komodo dragon's diet is wide-ranging, and includes invertebrates, other reptiles ( including smaller Komodo dragons ), birds, bird eggs, small mammals, monkeys, wild boar, goats, deer, horses, and water buffalo.

An early example of this is the boar hunt that gave Odysseus the scar by which Eurycleia recognizes him ; Odysseus is injured by the boar and responds by killing it.

A boar ( adult male ) weighs around, while a sow ( adult female ) is about half that size.

The ancestor of the domesticated pig is the wild boar, which is one of the most numerous and widespread large mammals.

The domestic pig ( Sus scrofa domesticus ) is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, although some authors call it S. domesticus, reserving S. scrofa for the wild boar.

The emblem for the brewery is a boar.

The area is also known to have housed all of the animals hunted by Bertilak ( deer, boar, fox ) in the 14th century.

" High describes that there are never too many to feed in Valhalla, for they feast from Sæhrímnir ( here described as a boar ), and that this beast is cooked every day and is again whole every night.

The origin of the name and of a boar ( the scrofa semilanuta ) as a symbol of the city are fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata ( 1584 ), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where a boar is seen lifted from the excavation, and the etymology of Mediolanum given as " half-wool ", explained in Latin and in French.

The foundation of Milan is credited to two Celtic peoples, the Bituriges and the Aedui, having as their emblems a ram and a boar ; therefore " The city's symbol is a wool-bearing boar, an animal of double form, here with sharp bristles, there with sleek wool.

They believed a female should not have the skin of the boar.

A population in the Ross-on-Wye area on the northern edge of the forest escaped from a wild boar farm around 1999 and are believed to be of pure Eastern European origin ; in a second introduction, a domestic herd was dumped near Staunton in 2004, but these were not pure bred wild boar — attempts to locate the source of the illegal dumps have been unsuccessful.

The Mucklaghs ; believed to be created by a magical boar

Traditionally believed to be dug out of the ground by a magical boar, there is a view that these structures may have been used to store and protect animals or more than likely for ceremonial purposes as excavations in similar sites in Britain and Europe have revealed sacred stones and offerings.

In the market place stands a stone carving, believed to be a boar's head, signifying where the animal market was during the 15th century as well as representing Richard's personal standard, the white boar.

The forest mammals are the red deer and roe deer, which were dietary staples, and the wild boar, elk, less frequently the aurochs, and a rare horse, believed to have been wild.

Henry VIII was believed to have used Bolebroke Castle, located a short distance from the village, where he hunted wild boar and deer at the nearby Ashdown Forest.

The town's name is believed to have come from three coincidental circumstances: One historical version was that it was named after the fang of a wild boar called " Panguil " in the vernacular.

In the past, each Khmu family was believed to be under the protection of a totem such as a boar or an eagle who had originally helped an ancestor and would continue to protect the family.

It is believed that the name of the town was derived from that breed of boar.

Long isolated from other pigs on the many islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, pigs have evolved into many different species, including wild boar, bearded pigs, and warty pigs.

Humans have introduced pigs into Australia, North and South America, and numerous islands, either accidentally as escaped domestic pigs which have gone feral, or as wild boar.

In Australia, Deerhounds have been used to hunt the kangaroo and wild boar.

As he was slowly being bitten to death, he is alleged to have exclaimed " How the little pigs would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffers!

Elsewhere, populations have also become established after escapes of wild boar from captivity.

Occasional escapes of wild boar from wildlife parks have occurred as early as the 1970s, but since the early 1990s significant populations have re-established themselves after escapes from farms ; the number of which has increased as the demand for wild boar meat has grown.

There have also been reports of wild boar having crossed the River Wye into Monmouthshire, Wales.

According to one study, " German wild boar litters have six to eight piglets on average, other countries usually only about four or five.

Spanish and French boar specimens have 36 chromosomes, as opposed to wild boar in the rest of Europe which possess 38, the same number as domestic pigs.

The ancient Lowland Scottish Clan Swinton is said to have to have acquired the name Swinton for their bravery and clearing their area of wild boar.

Because wild boar are included in the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, certain legal requirements have to be met prior to setting up a farm.

The original British wild boar farm stock was mainly of French origin, but from 1987 onwards, farmers have supplemented the original stock with animals of both west European and east European origin.

Despite claims that boar bristles have been used in the manufacture of premium dart boards for use with steel-tipped darts, these boards are, in fact, made of other materials and fibres — the finest ones from sisal rope.

At least three Roman Legions are known to have had a boar as their emblems: Legio I Italica, Legio X Fretensis and Legio XX Valeria Victrix.

In South America, New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and other islands, wild boar have also been introduced by humans and have partially interbred with domestic pigs.

Recently established Brazilian boar populations are not to be confused with long established populations of feral domestic pigs ( porcos monteiros ), which have existed mainly in the Pantanal for more than a hundred years, along with native peccaries.

Another possibility is that the bayonet originated as a hunting weapon: early firearms were fairly inaccurate and took a long time to reload ; thus a hunter of dangerous animals such as wild boar could easily have been exposed to danger if the hunter's bullet missed the animal.