It's a medieval painting of a beaver chewing off it's own balls- Oh fuck, nevermind. I mixed it up with my old picture of Ted Cruz campaigning for Trump in 2016.
It's a medieval painting of a beaver chewing off it's own balls- Oh fuck, nevermind. I mixed it up with my old picture of Ted Cruz campaigning for Trump in 2016.
The beaver thing is something that came up when a Quebecois bishop wondered if they could eat some beaver at lent. So that was well into the 17th century. Since then the myth that everyone ate beaver in medieval times has spread, they would have been more likely to eat some of the absolute shitload of herring that got sold from the north sea or some lamprey eel if they wanted a more "meaty" fish.
Beaver was already mostly gone from central and southern europe in medieval times.