Swineherd Puns

Did anyone else keep hold of this set and trophy? Level 35 armour I think. I've been using it whenever I'm not in combat and I decide to loot or trade or collect contract money. When I win gwent I get double the money? Not sure if I'm getting +50% from traders or florens etc, but I've convinced myself that 'This is the way'

Am I just an idiot, yeah maybe, but, yeah!

I just started my first reread of the series. I don't expect to uncover any major new info the community hasn't already uncovered, but I did notice this fun little tidbit.

In the book, there's this play called “The Swineherd and the Nightingale.” It's first mentioned in chapter 9. When I read this, I was reminded of the swineherd Kvothe and Denna meet later, in chapter 73, by the name of Skoivan Schiemmelpfenneg (lol). I wondered if Denna was the nightingale, so I searched the book for "nightingale" and sure enough, the only time anyone is ever called a nightingale is in chapter 54, when Kvothe says this about Denna:

>“And we sang! Her voice like burning silver, my voice an echoing answer. Savien sang solid, powerful lines, like branches of a rock-old oak, all the while Aloine was like a nightingale, moving in darting circles around the proud limbs of it.”

I don't know what the rest of the play is about, but "Fain" and "Lady Reythiel" are also mentioned as characters.

I would never have discovered this if I wasn't able to search the text digitally. Just a fun little connection

In Mark 5, Jesus sent the demons to the swines. After that, "[t]he swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened" (Mark 5:15, NRSV).

Considering that the Jews weren't allowed to eat pork, who were these swineherds? Gentiles? Were they common there, during that period? Where they came from?

Hello!

Is there a rough formula for how many pigsties a butcher can handle? Similar for a baker and fields?

Thanks!

Even when I was like 8 years old I felt that this fairytale seems iffy as hell and now that I am much older I actually feel like there is an incel-like element to it. The princess is seen as a bad person for rejecting the prince and his gifts, and instead of accepting his rejection the prince makes a plan to humiliate her. This reads like some incel fantasy, at least to me.

I’m reading the Odyssey for a college class and really enjoying it (I read it in high school too but didn’t really take it in). We’re reading the Fitzgerald translation which I find overall really beautiful. One thing I don’t really get is why the “narrator”/poet seems to have such a personal relationship with Eumaios. He’s always referred to in the narration as “you, the swineherd” or “my gentle swineherd” or “O! My swineherd”. The other characters are very rarely referred to as “you”, or “my [x]” but it seems like it’s every line with Eumaios.

For example Book XVI line 570 is “And you replied, Eumaios - O my swineherd”. Whereas for other characters it’ll just be, like, “And Odysseus replied”. Obviously they all get adjectives and epithets and whatnot but it seems much more intimate for Eumaios. The narrator never says “my Odysseus”, only “my Eumaios”. It feels like the only time in the text that the narrator even exists as a sort of character is when discussing Eumaios.

Are there any theories or explanations for why there’s this unique and deeplyr personal relationship between the swineherd and the poet”/narrator”? It’s not really present with any other characters.

I promise this post isn’t me trying to get y’all to do my homework, it’s just a question I’m genuinely curious about that my professor brushed off as nothing.

Also sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit, it seemed like the right one but idk.

Swineherd's Dance By Bela Bartok

A great and fun tune. I really enjoyed recording this one.

Regarding The Quarrel of the Two Swineherds: The very last paragraph refers to Friuch and Rucht becoming the bulls Finnbend Aí and Dond Cualngi, which we know are the very same bulls in the story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley. I'm wondering if any of other names they're given are related to other stories?

• Ingen and Eitte
• Bled and Blod
• Rind and Faebur (possibly in the Fianna?)
• Scáth and Scíath
• Cruinniuc and Tuinniuc

Any of these ring a bell for anyone?

I understand that the reply of those Cossacks to Mehmed IV may or may not have actually existed or have been worded as tradition holds, but the tradition itself gives the reply a certain life of its own, and people settled on calling the Sultan a wheelwright because it supposedly that implied something insulting about the Sultan.

What was it about building wheels that calling someone a wheelwright would have been insulting? I suppose the manual labor aspect of it may have been offensive to an aristocrat, but was there anything else?

If they'd called him a tanner, I'd have understood that, because tanning involved handling dog feces, which would be doubly insulting to a Muslim, but wheelwrights just used a lot of steam.

Near start of Chapter 73, Kvothe and Deanna encounter a Swineheard who says: “Oi taut Oi heard sommat daen tae water aways"

I have read this 50x and still can't figure out what he is saying...'I though I heard something...the water always?'

Thanks in advance

Dear Loyal.

One gamethrew as Mayor.

Then next game managed to lynch 3 townies by commanding the town. You are the most confident and biggest idiot I have ever seen.

On behalf of scum everywhere I salute you

I'm joining my roommate's dnd group for a one-off within their larger campaign where everyone plays an npc defending the pc's home town from attack by unspecified monsters.

At the GM's suggestion, I will be playing Pig Maester Grumm. There is apparently a running joke already that this character "crafts" pigs rather than just raising them in the traditional way. Apart from that I don't think there is any other history to the character.

At GM's suggestion I will play him as an Alchemist with the Preservationist subtype. This game is run under Pathfinder rules. Grumm will have one level of commoner and eight of preservationist.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/alchemist/archetypes/paizo-alchemist-archetypes/preservationist.

Does anyone here have suggestions for how to flavour this character? I currently imagine he'll be a lot like Pigsy from the old Monkey Magic show, but with the ability to summon guinea pigs, pigs, boar and maybe a dire boar.

I would appreciate any neat items, clothing, personality traits, behaviors etc that will help make the character memorable and ensure that the group doesn't regret inviting me in ;)

Thanks.

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I was reading about Justinian the Great and read that he was born a peasant and that his Uncle had brought him to Constantinople to educate him. I was astonished to read that Justin was an illiterate peasant - a literal swineherd who arrived in Constantinople with nothing as a teenager and ended up emperor 50 years later. How did this happen? What's the story and how much of it includes raw talent and ambition? Who was this incredible person who was able to climb so high from such a low beginning...

Regarding The Quarrel of the Two Swineherds: The very last paragraph refers to Friuch and Rucht becoming the bulls Finnbend Aí and Dond Cualngi, which we know are the very same bulls in the story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley. I'm wondering if any of the other names they're given are related to other stories?

• Ingen and Eitte
• Bled and Blod
• Rind and Faebur (possibly in the Fianna?)
• Scáth and Scíath
• Cruinniuc and Tuinniuc

Any of these ring a bell for anyone?

Regarding The Quarrel of the Two Swineherds: The very last paragraph refers to Friuch and Rucht becoming the bulls Finnbend Aí and Dond Cualngi, which we know are the very same bulls in the story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley. I'm wondering if any of the other names they're given are related to other stories?

• Ingen and Eitte
• Bled and Blod
• Rind and Faebur (possibly in the Fianna?)
• Scáth and Scíath
• Cruinniuc and Tuinniuc

Any of these ring a bell for anyone?