From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 128
Date: 1999-10-29
----- Original Message -----From: markodegard@...Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 3:30 PMSubject: [cybalist] CowpokesAlexander Stolbov wrote:Try to guess, which animals are harnessed.Easier to say who is absent: probably only the pig and the elephant. You can find there harnessed bulls, goats, horses (not so much), probably other equids, rams, even camels. As a rule the teams are unpaired, i.e. with 2 animals of different species. A crazy picture, isn't it?
Interesting. Wasn't Fricka's chariot drawn by rams? Or was that Balder's wife? Goats, as I remember, can be trained to draw carts (as can dogs); I don't think camels would be too cooperative (or rather, are not too anatomically-adapted to the chore).
It was Freyja, daughter of Njord and sister of Frey (not to be confused, at least in Scandinavia, with Frigg, wife of Odin and mother of Balder). And her chariot was drawn by cats (see the enclosed picture; sometimes she also rode a golden wildboar). Well, I have two cats and neither of them is too cooperative at any chore. I use leads for walking them out, and there is this little harness to which the leash is attached -- just try to put it on a cat, they REALLY hate being harnessed!Piotr