Swineherd

"Pig farmer" redirects here. For other uses, seePig Farmer (disambiguation).

Engravingof theProdigal Sonas a swineherd byHans Sebald Beham,1538

Aswineherd/ˈswaɪnhɜːrd/is a person who raises and herdspigsaslivestock.

Swineherds in literature

• In theNew Testamentare mentioned shepherd of pigs, mentioned in thePig (Gadarene)the story showsJesusexorcising a demon or demons from a man and a flock of pigs,as well as in theparableof theProdigal Sonin a son who wastes his father's fortune and is forced to work as a Swineherd.
• Hans Christian Andersenwrote afairy talecalledThe Swineherd.
• InGreek mythology,Eumaeus(or Eumaios) wasOdysseus' swineherd.
• InLloyd Alexander's booksThe Chronicles of Prydain,based onWelsh mythology,theherois a pig keeper, or swineherd. So he is in the Disney film adaptationThe Black Cauldron.
• The character Gurth, in SirWalter Scott's novelIvanhoeis a swineherd.
• AmongEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's most famous work is the poem "Swineherd".
• The protagonist inH. P. Lovecraft's story “The Rats in the Walls“has reoccurring nightmares of a bearded daemon swineherd.
• Mentioned as a class of labourer in theStatute of Labourers 1351.
• In theSenchas Fagbála Caisil"The Story of the Finding of Cashel", one of the earliest medieval Irish texts, the legend of the kingship of Cashel is told through several visions experienced by two swineherds, Duirdriu and Cuirirán.

Swineherds in paintings

The Swineherd byPaul Gauguin,1888

• The Swineherd, a 1888 painting by French artistPaul Gauguin

Swineherds in history

• Denewulf,Bishop of Winchester from 878 or 879 until his death in 908, began his life as a swineherd.
• Ivaylo of Bulgaria,a swineherd who spearheaded a peasant uprising and became tsar of Bulgaria (1277–1278).
• Rafael Carrera,President of Guatemala 1844-48 and 1851-65

See also

• Pig farming
• Porcarius,Latin for swineherd, sometimes used as a name

References

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