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/* Beaver */
|Literature =
*Al-Mukaddasi
*Code of Welsh Laws by King Howel Dha. AD c.940AD940. A beaver pelt is priced at 120 pence, considerably more than for a martin pelt, 24 pence, and for wolf, fox or otter, 8 pence. [SPRIGGS 1998:p.95]
|Archaeology =
*Birka, Sweden: Beaver (graves 539, 619, 956, 968)[HAGG 1984]*York, England: 4 bones (possibly from the same animal). C8th-C9th. [SPRIGGS 1998:p.95]|Discussion=*Fur: Beaver was probably used to trim women's clothing in Sweden and to trim the King's garments in Wales.*Food: Geraldus in around c.1200 describes the tails of beavers being classed as a fish and being suitable food during lent. [SPRIGGS 1998:p.97]*Properties:Beavers testicles were believed to have medicinal properties since classical times, a belief that had been repeated by Aesop, Aristotle, Solinus, Juvenal and Pliny the Elder [SPRIGGS 1998:p.96]*In Britain: Beavers were rare during the Viking Age which is reflected in the price for their fur paid by King Howel Dha and were finally hunted to extinction probably during the C13th [SPRIGGS 1998:p.95].
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