#unicorn tapestries is a reference to latebmedieval hunting parks also.

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@swmngpools yes sorry there’s not much context here. i’m currently writing a paper on walafrid strabo’s poem about plants sprouting from the bones of a deer, a scene potentially he stumbled upon in a caroligian hunting park. it’s a weird and neat little poem, playing with the idea of an unnatural natural world (the hunting park is man-made, created to be good for hunting etc, and sometimes is thought about as an artificial eden in medieval writings, but ultimately we know now the hunting park is an ecological disaster bcs they’re bringing in invasive species etc. the hunting park destroys natural diversity, the very thing it strives to create, etc. the violence of planting trees.)

on top of that, the poem is about the sort of life in death and life from violence, where the trees are bones, which again has this idea that trees come from violence: to make a forest is to sacrifice & hunt & kill. my thoughts r rlly disjointed on this rn bcs im supposed to be focusing on alcuin but if there are any walafrid strabo ppl out there . I Am So Into How Weird His Poems Can Be

also weird little seneca references :-)

frothing at the mouth again abt the violence of planting trees