Is it a Fish? (The Medieval Beaver)

In this video we explore medieval stories about the Eurasian Beaver. Is it actually a fish? Do they build castles? And can their "intimate" body parts cure disease?
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Music: 'Tavern Loop One' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
'Master of the Feast' by Kevin MacLeod
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[@ScholaNormannorum]

What's your favourite 'wacky' Medieval factoid that's actually quite reasonable?

[@abdullahidahir545]

This is an amazing video!

[@abdullahidahir545]

More Bestiary stories!, We would like some more!

[@ScholaNormannorum]

And we like making them!

[@stepthroughhistory]

That was a great watch thanks. Would the dog headed men count for a future episode?

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Thanks so much, and absolutely, dog-headed men are definitely on our list for a future video!

[@jamesconnolly5164]

I can understand why a Medieval person might think that a porpoise or whale was a fish, but to try to categorize an otter or beaver as a fish was clearly a way of breaking the rules on a technicality that everyone deep down knew was bullshit. The religious Jews do it too by leaving their house at times when the rules say they shouldn't by putting a wire in front of their house and declaring everything inside it to be part of said house. Muslims do it on Ramadan by sleeping during the day and feasting at night so that they don't need to actually feel the sting of the fast hours, which is the point of Ramadan in the first place. Buddhists in Japan used to do a ceremony to make a woman temporarily a "nun" during childbirth if they thought they might die to secure a better rebirth. Any sufficiently large religion has people trying to break rules on a technicality while flouting the spirit of the rule and then thinking they're really clever.