Historian and writer James Wade of the University of Cambridge found a 15th-century manuscript with the contents assigned to it in the National Library of Scotland, India. The author of the text is one Richard Hyge, who is the supervisor and mentor of the family, and Sherbrooke – Derbyshire. The text consists of nine parts, one of which, called “Hare Hunt”, describes an extremely strange character in medieval literature – a killer rabbit.
In the Middle Age of the last century, the cultural entertainment was the performances of minstrels who read poetry, told stories or specially composed stories, incidents to music. The problem is that the activities of minstrels are not documented in any way, and their creative baggage is not shown. No tem y cenna rucopis Hige, who himself was not a minstrel, but from a postscript on one page “was hired to feast and did not drink.” That is, he did not have fun with everyone, but tried to write down what an unknown minstrel met.
Most of the phenomena from the text are ridiculed, and in a very vulgar form, either individual classes or individual vices. The words cover deliberately, comparisons are vulgar, ironic and rude – this is the content for the masses of tipsy people. However, in some stories there is this deep philosophical thought, that is, so true and real Estonians of the late Middle Ages in England.
“Hare Hunt” describes a situation where a group of ambitious people, but not able to negotiate and coordinate their actions, sets an important task ahead of them. In the original text, these are hunters with dogs who foolishly got lost in the middle and killed each other, but never got the hare. This gave rise to a literary device in the form of the appearance of a killer rabbit – in fact, it is not ridiculously melodic, on which he tried to shift the blame of people so as not to admit his stupid deeds and mistakes.
Source: Tech Cult
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