Bear skewer
| Bear skewer | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Polearm |
| Designations: | Bear iron |
| Use: | Hunting weapon |
| Working time: | until now |
| Region of origin / author: |
Germany |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Overall length: | approx. 230 cm, variable |
| Blade length: | approx. 30 cm, variable |
| Handle: | Wood, leather, metal, approx. 200 cm |
| Particularities: | Shank wrapped with leather strips, toggle on the blade or the shank |
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The bear skewer (also known as a bear iron) is a historic edged weapon intended for hunting bears .
description
The bear skewer is a skewer that is one of the historic hunting weapons. The blade is wide and double-edged. A strong toggle is attached between the blade and the shaft to prevent the weapon from penetrating too deeply. The shaft, which is up to two meters long, is usually wrapped crosswise with cords to ensure a good grip.
In the economic encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773-1858) it says:
“Fang = iron, Fr. Vouge, by the hunters, a strong spear with a gag to catch wild pigs, bears and wolves by stabbing them to death; the feather, the pig's feather, the pig iron, the skewer. There is a huge difference among the trapping irons. For, one has broad bear irons and narrower pig irons , on them either shafts of rowan wood, which have been sunk in the sap season so that knots have grown on them, or shafts of good, tough beech wood or birch wood. Around such shafts are red and black narrow straps, which are fastened with yellow or white ends. This trapping iron must have a gag at 1 1/2 or 2 spans back, like a cross, so that if the pig is hit, it cannot penetrate the man beyond the gag. It must be ruled with the left hand, and pressed down with the right, but the feet must be set by the hunter so that the left thigh under the left and the right under the right hand stand firmly, strong and immovable, and most of it Reticle for the pig's head and its movement. The catch between the forelegs and the neck must also be made right to the heart. "
Demarcation
The bear skewer is (rarely) used as a symbol in heraldry (Grand Master Friedrich von Sachsen). The bear skewer as a meal occasionally appears in cookbooks or menus.
See also
literature
- Michel Pastoureau: L'ours, histoire d'un roi déchu. (Book with content on historical bear hunting), Paris 2007, (French), ISBN 978-2-02-021542-8 . German: The bear. Story of a fallen king. Wunderkammer Verlag, Neu-Isenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939062-09-7 .
- Peter Maier: Waidhofen adYbbs. Traces of history . Published by the Waidhofen an der Ybbs magistrate, 1st edition 2006
Web links
- Bärenspieß, PW Hartmann, art dictionary
- Bear skewer in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
- Oekonomische Encyklopädie , JG Krünitz, (1773–1858) Online access to the University of Trier