Re: Wild cattle and oxen OBS NO MUSK-OX or BISON

From: I.E_Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_telia.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:15:45 GMT

"Kel Rekuta" <krekuta@sympatico.ca> skrev i meddelandet
news:4207FD31.2090405@sympatico.ca...
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> tkavanagh wrote:
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> >>
> >>Kalm definitely wasn't asking about Musk-ox or
> >>Bison. He was talking about
> >>ordinary type of domestic cows, pigs and oxen.
> >
> >
> > On page 162 of the on-line English version, while
> > speaking of "wild oxen," Kalm explicitly wrote:
> > "...the American species of oxen is Linneaus's Bos
> > bison."
> >
> > tk
> >
> >
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> That's what I thought. Inger needs to insist they are some super
> survivor species of Swedish cattle. If Scandinavian cattle couldn't hack
> it in Southern Greenland, why would they do any better on the shores of
> Hudson Bay? Its pretty nasty there in the winter. No fodder, no shelter
> from the wind, et cetera.
>
> And Zolota, thanks for the thought of bison being Kalm's cattle. I
> wasn't aware their range extended that far east to Hudson's Bay.
>
> Kel

Kel,
I don't need to - the English translation is real bad. Boskap in Swedish is
as you probably know cattles which either are or have origin from domestic
cattles. As you ought to know we speak of 'vilt' in older days 'vill' and or
'villt' resp'villar' when we speak and spoke of non-domestic origin.

Inger E
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