Herne ~ Cernunnos (formerly "I thought I would share this")
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:57 pm
Original post: Mmothra
SaintGeorge
06-15-2004, 10:15 AM
I thought I would share this in view of the occasionally heard debates
on the possibility that Herne the Hunter and Cernnous could be one and
the same character.
http://www.elswhere.net/herne.jpg
Herne was the favourite huntsman of Richard the Second. Mortally wounded while saving his master from a stag at bay, he was miraculously cured by a stranger, who tied the antlers of a dead stag to the dying man's brow. He claimed in payment all Herne's skill in venery. Crazed by the loss of that skill in the craft he loved, Herne fled to the forest, where a pedlar found his horned corpse hanging from an oak. But every night he returned at the head of a spectral hunt to harry the Windsor game as of old.
this is the source link (http://www.britannia.com/history/legend ... col17.html)
SaintGeorge
06-15-2004, 10:15 AM
I thought I would share this in view of the occasionally heard debates
on the possibility that Herne the Hunter and Cernnous could be one and
the same character.
http://www.elswhere.net/herne.jpg
Herne was the favourite huntsman of Richard the Second. Mortally wounded while saving his master from a stag at bay, he was miraculously cured by a stranger, who tied the antlers of a dead stag to the dying man's brow. He claimed in payment all Herne's skill in venery. Crazed by the loss of that skill in the craft he loved, Herne fled to the forest, where a pedlar found his horned corpse hanging from an oak. But every night he returned at the head of a spectral hunt to harry the Windsor game as of old.
this is the source link (http://www.britannia.com/history/legend ... col17.html)
