Savernake Forest Part (Flipping) Five: Fallow (O. Eng.: Fealu) Deer and Poetry About an Ogre

Savernake Forest is just so fascinating I am back for part five. Within minutes I bump into a herd of Fallow (Old English: fealu, “tawny”) deer and then it is off to find the Bitham pond which is in an Old Saxon charter of Great Bedwyn as Bydan Hammes. Then I quote some ogre poetry (þyrs=ogre/giant).

These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.

But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.

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