The swineherd Gurth refuses to open the gates until the palmer whispers a few words in his ear, which turns Gurth as helpful as he was recalcitrant earlier.

Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors — beginning with Antinous whom he finds drinking from Odysseus ' cup — with help from Telemachus, Athena and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd.

He visits Eumaeus, the swineherd, who happens to be hosting a disguised Odysseus.

The oracle also features in Odysseus's fictive yarn about himself told to the swineherd Eumaeus: Odysseus, he tells Eumaeus, has been seen among the Thesprotians, having gone to inquire of the oracle at Dodona whether he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret ( as the disguised Odysseus is actually doing ).

* In Greek mythology, Eumaeus ( or Eumaios ) was Odysseus ' swineherd.

Carrera was an illiterate, but shrewd and charismatic swineherd turned highwayman, whom the rebels wanted as their leader.

In this year Cluain Moccu Nóis was founded: that is, Nós, swineherd of the king of Connachta, from whom Cluain Moccu Nóis is named.

With the help of his son Telemachus, Athena, and Eumaeus, the swineherd, he killed all of them except Medon, who had been polite to Penelope, and Phemius, a local singer who had only been forced to help the suitors against Penelope.

He claimed such a farm should have " a foreman, a foreman's wife, ten laborers, one ox driver, one donkey driver, one man in charge of the willow grove, one swineherd, in all sixteen persons ; two oxen, two asses for wagon work, one ass for the mill work.

Firm information on his early life is scarce ; traditions maintain that he started out as either a London apprentice, or a swineherd in Ealing, or a water-carrier ; and, it is not impossible that he was all three.

There are various legends associating him with pigs: one is that for a time he worked as a swineherd.

The shipbuilding Phaeacians then loan him a ship to return to Ithaca, where he is aided by the swineherd Eumaeus, meets Telemachus, regains his household, kills the Suitors, and is reunited with his faithful wife, Penelope.

The swineherd finds Culhwch in the pigs ' run, and takes him back to his father Cilydd.

To his horror, the lovely creature's father turns out to be a swineherd, caring for what, to him, was a forbidden animal.

* Elatus, one of the suitors of Penelope, killed by Eumaeus, the swineherd

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

In the original myth which is an etiology for the ancient rites, Eubuleus was a swineherd who was feeding his pigs at the opening to the underworld when Persephone was abducted by Plouton.

Justin was a peasant and a swineherd by occupation from the Latinophone region of Dardania, which is part of the Diocese of Illyricum.

The absence of elements of the Thesmophoria in myths is notable: the pigs of the swineherd Euboulos, that were swallowed up in the cleft in the ground when Hades abducted the Kore, are an attempt to provide an etiology for the ancient rites ; in some places, Zeus penetrates the Thesmophoria, as Zeus Eubouleus ( Burkert p 243 ).

As king of the Munster síde with Lén as his smith, Bodb Sída ar Femen (' of the Mound on Femen ') plays a role in an important prefatory tale to Táin Bó Cuailnge, for it is his swineherd who quarrels with that of the king of the Connacht síde ; the swineherds are later swallowed and reborn as the magical bulls Donn Cuailnge and Finnbennach, of which the former was the object of the great cattle-raid.

Evesham is derived from the Old English homme or ham, and Eof, the name of a swineherd in the service of Egwin, third bishop of Worcester.

Local folklore is provided for by the Legend of Evesham surrounding the life of Eof, an 8th century swineherd credited with the founding of the town, and St Egwin the Bishop of Worcester who founded the abbey and who whose feet had been fettered and the key thrown in the River Avon.

The question of whether the swineherd was named Eof or Eoves is a long-standing

A swineherd () is a person who looks after pigs.

* In Lloyd Alexander's books based on Welsh mythology, The Chronicles of Prydain, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd.

* The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott's book " Ivanhoe " is a swineherd.

* The main character in the Disney movie The Black Cauldron is a swineherd.

When a famine strikes, he becomes desperately poor and is forced to take work as a swineherd.

What is clear is that a swineherd or swine-owner named Ivaylo became a leader of the discontented and attracted many ( presumably mostly lower-class ) followers, asserting his control over a significant area.

When she is near to giving birth, her senses return, and she takes shelter with a swineherd.

From Sparta Telemachus returned home ; and on his arrival there, he found his father, with the swineherd Eumaeus.

As an example, Hernan Cortes during his childhood was a swineherd and fed himself on acorns he collected.

He finds his way to the hut of one of his own slaves, the swineherd Eumaeus.

However, the swineherd Gurth, who had run away from Rotherwood to serve Ivanhoe as squire at the tournament and who was recaptured by Cedric when Ivanhoe was identified, manages to escape.

Before Persephone was abducted by Hades, the shepherd Eumolpus and the swineherd Eubuleus, saw a girl being carried of into the earth which had violently opened up, in a black chariot, driven by an invisible driver.

A peasant rebellion, one of the few successful such in history, established the swineherd Ivaylo as a Tsar.

This led to a peasant rebellion led by the swineherd Ivaylo, who eventually managed to defeat the Tsar's forces and ascend the throne.

Image: Gauguin. swineherd. 750pix. jpg | The Swineherd, Brittany, ( 1888 )

The Collectio canonum Hibernensis cites the authority of Saint Patrick as indicating that the custom originated with the swineherd of Lóegaire mac Néill, the king who opposed Patrick.

In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (, Eumaios ) was Odysseus's swineherd and friend.

) incorrectly give the name of the swineherd as Eoves, but it should be Eof, as explained as long ago as 1920 by O. G.