Now again, here I would disagree. <G> I've seen Master McGrath, hisownself, stuffed in the British Museum (yech!).. He was the size of a modern Greyhound bitch....about 30-40 kg, from the look of him.
Even Master Magrath was the > size of a *large* whippet today and he ran only 100 years ago... > As the Borzoi people pointed out to me--before I got *hard-nosed* and they came up with better documentation--"breeds" as such were really not a primary concern in period. One of the better attributions I've come across relates the word "greyhound" to the Saxon "greu hunde" or "running hound" (Randwulf will, no doubt, take me to task on this <G>). I truly suspect that a hound who fitted the "greyhound type" and hunted by sight was called a Greyhound in period--whether it was IG sized, whippet sized, or whatever. None of this, however, absolves anyone from documenting their "breed" for GW! <VBEG>> I still would like to see someone document "whippet" as period. The earliest I have been able to find the term used was the 18th C. Samira So *I* think the rather different body type of a grey has been around > for longer than post Crusades... > But then I also think the Iggy was larger than most today and the > Whippet formalized in the 1900's--tho dogs of the current whippet > type and size were stealing table scraps back 'in period'. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/PJ_qlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Coursing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
