--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Schuyler Himberg" <schuylerhimberg@...> wrote:

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> is the pig formation that you are talking about the same thing of a boar formation?

This is certainly a name widely used of it in Present-day English. I'm not aware of an alternative name for the tactic in Old Norse that refers specifically to the male pig, <göltr>. Old Norse <svín>, neuter, is cognate with English <swine> and, as in English, refers to the animal in general, male and female. In the Latin <porcinum caput>, the first word is an adjective, "porcine", and doesn't specify a boar, <verres>, <aper>. But I'm not a Latin expert, so I don't know if alternative names were used of the formation there, and I don't know what Hannibal would have called it in Phoenician.