The fact that the goose was never seen to breed gave rise to the myth that it spontaneously generated from barnacles.

In our opinion this superstition arose from the fact that barnacle geese breed in such remote latitudes that men, in ignorance of their real nesting place, invented this explanation. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 1. These myths were kept alive for centuries. A short section of the book is devoted to Scotland and Ireland.

The very first bird post that I put on the blog was Aviation – and this was when we were renting Ard Glas.

and recorded these travels in his book entitled "de Europa". And although some topers found solace in the old couplet: – Good luck and long life to the Council of Trent, It took away meat but it left us the drink –, large numbers took a pledge against alcoholic drinks ‘for the duration’…’.

[6] [7] "When these were nearly ripe, they dropped down of their own accord, some onto the earth, and some into the water.

There are differences in the original sources for this story.

Being in progress of time well covered with feathers, they either fall into the water or take their flight in the free air, their nourishment and growth being supplied, while they are bred in this very unaccountable and curious manner, from the juices of the wood in the sea-water. [2] Early medieval accounts of migration often drew on popular myths to explain why some birds seemed to disappear and then reappear during the year.

Since we started this blog, back in 2012, I have regularly written posts on the many bird varieties which we have around us on the coast of Roaringwater Bay. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. So that’s a lean time for the milk sellers, the cheese makers and the egg producers as well as the butchers. The barnacle goose was first classified taxonomically by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1803.

Danaher again: ‘…there was no merrymaking during Lent, no music, dancing, card playing or visiting friends.

In fact it is true that a pope commented on the topic, but that was Innocent III in 1215 – and he condemned it. Watch out for future posts on Oystercatchers (which have already received a brief mention), Curlews, Gulls and Ducks, to name but a few. Frederick II’s contemporary Albertus Magnus went even farther and actually bred one with a domestic goose.

In many houses the pack of playing cards was burned and a new pack was bought at Easter. Yet, the absurdity survived for five more centuries with many naturalists giving credit to the story. [11] The event, if it occurred, was sometime between c.1506-1520. Barnacle Goose Myth Posted on January 3, 2015 January 5, 2015; 4 Comments; Bird Diary. The idea that these little feathered creatures can travel thousands of miles in search of food and warmth was unimaginable.

That was a general review of the birds that came to our luxurious new bird table which Danny made for us – now sadly demolished by Ferdia the Fox who is as fond of peanuts as the birds are….

I will: I’m relying for much of this on The Year in Ireland, an excellent book published in 1972 and written by Kevin Danaher, who at that time was Lecturer in Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin. Charm of Goldfinches – photo by Maurice Baker. Others expressed doubt.

The butchers put a Herring on the end of a nine foot long lath and carried it through the streets, insulting the poor fish as they went. "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Another commentator in 1916 describes a remembered ceremony in County Monaghan: ‘…On Easter Sunday morning, immediately after last Mass, all the young men and maidens, dressed in their best, flocked into the town of Carrickmacross, where they formed into a procession, headed by one of their number carrying a long pole, from the top of which dangled a Herring, and marched to the tune of whatever musical instruments they could muster (fiddles were the most common in those days) till they came down to the lake just outside the town, when the Herring was taken down from the pole and thrown into the water amidst the cheers and laughter of the spectators… The Herring, being the cheapest and most plentiful fish, was the principal dish of the poorer classes, and of some of the better-off people, too; consequently the people grew so tired of seeing him day after day on their tables that they conceived the idea of getting rid of him by drowning, after which they would indulge in all kinds of games and pastimes, amply making up for the quiet time they spent during Lent, as no one would think of enjoying themselves during the Holy Season…’. In the garden of Nead an Iolair the other day we were surprised by a male Sparrowhawk perched on the wall: the small birds all kept well away!

Good for them!

In November of last year I discussed the Charm of Goldfinches which visited the bird feeders in our garden. Drawing from the manuscript of Topographia Hibernica by Gerald of Wales. It’s only one of the many wading and shore birds which visit the unspoilt coastline in these parts. The barnacle goose mainly winters on the Atlantic coasts of Scotland and Ireland, but in summer it travels north to the Arctic and breeds on its many islands. 1400-1458)."

What Gerald saw were actually goose barnacles, a crustacean that live in the sea attached to rock surfaces and timber and often wash up on shores along with pieces of driftwood.

[12]

It wasn’t until Dutch sailors had travelled to northern Europe and saw the birds breed, that the legend was finally led to rest.
Drawing from the manuscript of Topographia Hibernica by Gerald of Wales. When these were nearly ripe, they dropped down of their own accord, some onto the earth, and some into the water.

In some the Latin "aves" - "bird" is used; in others it is "Anetarum" derived from "anatum" - "duck"', coming from "anas/anatis"; in others, "anserum" - "goose", See the following sources for details of the story told by Pope Pius II in "de Europa" and "Commentaries". The barnacle goose mainly winters on the Atlantic coasts of Scotland and Ireland, but in summer it travels north to the Arctic and breeds on its many islands. Pius, Florence A. Gragg, and Leona C. Gabel.

[1] The migration patterns of many birds including barnacle geese were not fully known until the late 19th or early 20th centuries. My favourite birds of all here are the Choughs. © Amusing Planet, 2020. Since then I have introduced you to Old Nog the Heron – who flies over us quite frequently, made a passing reference to the Swans who live below us in the Cove (but see more below), and set out a whole lot of fact and folklore about the wonderful Barnacle Goose. His remarkable observations and comments are worth quoting: There is also a small species known as the barnacle goose, arrayed in motley plumage ..., of whose nesting haunts we have no certain knowledge. Photo: Grisha Bruev/Shutterstock.com. Well, strictly speaking we shouldn’t eat any meat or animal products during the 40 days of Lent. The migration patterns of may birds including the Barnacle Geese were not fully known until the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

Imagine how pleased I was to discover that Choughs are resident all around Nead an Iolair! No eggs are laid by these birds after copulation, as is the case with birds in general; the hen never sits on eggs to hatch them; in no corner of the world are they seen either to pair or to build nests. There are a number of editions of Boece's History of Scotland. Aristotle suggested that the tiny swallow avoided the strain of migration by hibernating in the ground instead.
Those that landed on the earth rotted away, but those that sank into the water instantly came to life, swam out from below the water, and immediately flew into the air, equipped with feathers and wings. This goose hangs from the dead wood by its beak until it is old and strong enough to fly. The extravagant legend of the barnacle goose was eagerly embraced by some Irish clerics, because it gave them a convenient excuse to introduce meat to their plates during periods of fasting without offending Christian morals. 1988. The fact that the goose was never seen to breed gave rise to the myth that it spontaneously generated from barnacles. Pope Innocent III explicitly prohibited the eating of these geese during Lent, arguing that despite their unusual reproduction, they lived and fed like ducks and so were of the same nature as other birds.

Secret memoirs of a Renaissance Pope : the commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II : an abridgement (Folio Society: London); Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius, Robert Brown, Nancy Bisaha, and ProQuest (Firm). I will not hesitate to describe something I myself witnessed seven years ago… Alexander Galloway, parson of Kinkell, who, besides being a man of outstanding probity, is possessed of an unmatched zeal for studying wonders… When he was pulling up some driftwood and saw that seashells were clinging to it from one end to the other, he was surprised by the unusual nature of the thing, and, out of a zeal to understand it, opened them up, whereupon he was more amazed than ever, for within them he discovered, not sea creatures, but rather birds, of a size similar to the shells that contained them …. But the notion was not entirely an alien one. It remains for me (Boece) to discuss those geese commonly called clacks, (claiks) which are commonly but wrongly imagined to be born on trees in these islands, on the basis of what I have learned from my diligent investigation of this thing. References: # The Engines of Our Ingenuity, https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm # Topographia Hibernica, http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf # Shorelines, https://sercblog.si.edu/science-superstition-and-the-goose-barnacle/ # John S. Wilkins, Species: A History of the Idea # The Barnacle Goose Myth in the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1960.tb00267.x. [8]. [3]. I’m getting dizzy – just tell me about the Barnacle Goose. Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose" and the specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek leukos "white", and opsis "faced". A goose barnacle.

Albertus dismissed the legend as “altogether absurd”, noting that he and his friends had “seen them pair and lay eggs and hatch chicks.” That was in the 13th century.

A myth about the Barnacle goose and Brant goose is that these geese emerge fully-formed from the Goose Barnacle .
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small shells contained birds of a proportionately small size….. The age of the myth and the lack of empirical evidence on Bird migration led to several other accounts of the origins of barnacle geese being common until the 20th century.

Photo: Patiparn46/Shutterstock.com.

In 1435, Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus,[4] travelled to Scotland to encourage James I of Scotland to assist the French in the “Hundred Years War”. (, Better known as Pope Pius II, Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (1405-1464).

Some 75 years later, Hector Boece in his "Scotorum Historiae a Prima Gentis Origine" [9] gave further credence to this story with an account of a discussion he had with his friend and colleague Canon Alexander Galloway [10] on an island in what is now called the Western Isles.

The fact that the goose was never seen to breed gave rise to the myth that it spontaneously generated from barnacles.

In our opinion this superstition arose from the fact that barnacle geese breed in such remote latitudes that men, in ignorance of their real nesting place, invented this explanation. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 1. These myths were kept alive for centuries. A short section of the book is devoted to Scotland and Ireland.

The very first bird post that I put on the blog was Aviation – and this was when we were renting Ard Glas.

and recorded these travels in his book entitled "de Europa". And although some topers found solace in the old couplet: – Good luck and long life to the Council of Trent, It took away meat but it left us the drink –, large numbers took a pledge against alcoholic drinks ‘for the duration’…’.

[6] [7] "When these were nearly ripe, they dropped down of their own accord, some onto the earth, and some into the water.

There are differences in the original sources for this story.

Being in progress of time well covered with feathers, they either fall into the water or take their flight in the free air, their nourishment and growth being supplied, while they are bred in this very unaccountable and curious manner, from the juices of the wood in the sea-water. [2] Early medieval accounts of migration often drew on popular myths to explain why some birds seemed to disappear and then reappear during the year.

Since we started this blog, back in 2012, I have regularly written posts on the many bird varieties which we have around us on the coast of Roaringwater Bay. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. So that’s a lean time for the milk sellers, the cheese makers and the egg producers as well as the butchers. The barnacle goose was first classified taxonomically by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1803.

Danaher again: ‘…there was no merrymaking during Lent, no music, dancing, card playing or visiting friends.

In fact it is true that a pope commented on the topic, but that was Innocent III in 1215 – and he condemned it. Watch out for future posts on Oystercatchers (which have already received a brief mention), Curlews, Gulls and Ducks, to name but a few. Frederick II’s contemporary Albertus Magnus went even farther and actually bred one with a domestic goose.

In many houses the pack of playing cards was burned and a new pack was bought at Easter. Yet, the absurdity survived for five more centuries with many naturalists giving credit to the story. [11] The event, if it occurred, was sometime between c.1506-1520. Barnacle Goose Myth Posted on January 3, 2015 January 5, 2015; 4 Comments; Bird Diary. The idea that these little feathered creatures can travel thousands of miles in search of food and warmth was unimaginable.

That was a general review of the birds that came to our luxurious new bird table which Danny made for us – now sadly demolished by Ferdia the Fox who is as fond of peanuts as the birds are….

I will: I’m relying for much of this on The Year in Ireland, an excellent book published in 1972 and written by Kevin Danaher, who at that time was Lecturer in Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin. Charm of Goldfinches – photo by Maurice Baker. Others expressed doubt.

The butchers put a Herring on the end of a nine foot long lath and carried it through the streets, insulting the poor fish as they went. "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Another commentator in 1916 describes a remembered ceremony in County Monaghan: ‘…On Easter Sunday morning, immediately after last Mass, all the young men and maidens, dressed in their best, flocked into the town of Carrickmacross, where they formed into a procession, headed by one of their number carrying a long pole, from the top of which dangled a Herring, and marched to the tune of whatever musical instruments they could muster (fiddles were the most common in those days) till they came down to the lake just outside the town, when the Herring was taken down from the pole and thrown into the water amidst the cheers and laughter of the spectators… The Herring, being the cheapest and most plentiful fish, was the principal dish of the poorer classes, and of some of the better-off people, too; consequently the people grew so tired of seeing him day after day on their tables that they conceived the idea of getting rid of him by drowning, after which they would indulge in all kinds of games and pastimes, amply making up for the quiet time they spent during Lent, as no one would think of enjoying themselves during the Holy Season…’. In the garden of Nead an Iolair the other day we were surprised by a male Sparrowhawk perched on the wall: the small birds all kept well away!

Good for them!

In November of last year I discussed the Charm of Goldfinches which visited the bird feeders in our garden. Drawing from the manuscript of Topographia Hibernica by Gerald of Wales. It’s only one of the many wading and shore birds which visit the unspoilt coastline in these parts. The barnacle goose mainly winters on the Atlantic coasts of Scotland and Ireland, but in summer it travels north to the Arctic and breeds on its many islands. 1400-1458)."

What Gerald saw were actually goose barnacles, a crustacean that live in the sea attached to rock surfaces and timber and often wash up on shores along with pieces of driftwood.

[12]

It wasn’t until Dutch sailors had travelled to northern Europe and saw the birds breed, that the legend was finally led to rest.
Drawing from the manuscript of Topographia Hibernica by Gerald of Wales. When these were nearly ripe, they dropped down of their own accord, some onto the earth, and some into the water.

In some the Latin "aves" - "bird" is used; in others it is "Anetarum" derived from "anatum" - "duck"', coming from "anas/anatis"; in others, "anserum" - "goose", See the following sources for details of the story told by Pope Pius II in "de Europa" and "Commentaries". The barnacle goose mainly winters on the Atlantic coasts of Scotland and Ireland, but in summer it travels north to the Arctic and breeds on its many islands. Pius, Florence A. Gragg, and Leona C. Gabel.

[1] The migration patterns of many birds including barnacle geese were not fully known until the late 19th or early 20th centuries. My favourite birds of all here are the Choughs. © Amusing Planet, 2020. Since then I have introduced you to Old Nog the Heron – who flies over us quite frequently, made a passing reference to the Swans who live below us in the Cove (but see more below), and set out a whole lot of fact and folklore about the wonderful Barnacle Goose. His remarkable observations and comments are worth quoting: There is also a small species known as the barnacle goose, arrayed in motley plumage ..., of whose nesting haunts we have no certain knowledge. Photo: Grisha Bruev/Shutterstock.com. Well, strictly speaking we shouldn’t eat any meat or animal products during the 40 days of Lent. The migration patterns of may birds including the Barnacle Geese were not fully known until the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

Imagine how pleased I was to discover that Choughs are resident all around Nead an Iolair! No eggs are laid by these birds after copulation, as is the case with birds in general; the hen never sits on eggs to hatch them; in no corner of the world are they seen either to pair or to build nests. There are a number of editions of Boece's History of Scotland. Aristotle suggested that the tiny swallow avoided the strain of migration by hibernating in the ground instead.
Those that landed on the earth rotted away, but those that sank into the water instantly came to life, swam out from below the water, and immediately flew into the air, equipped with feathers and wings. This goose hangs from the dead wood by its beak until it is old and strong enough to fly. The extravagant legend of the barnacle goose was eagerly embraced by some Irish clerics, because it gave them a convenient excuse to introduce meat to their plates during periods of fasting without offending Christian morals. 1988. The fact that the goose was never seen to breed gave rise to the myth that it spontaneously generated from barnacles. Pope Innocent III explicitly prohibited the eating of these geese during Lent, arguing that despite their unusual reproduction, they lived and fed like ducks and so were of the same nature as other birds.

Secret memoirs of a Renaissance Pope : the commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II : an abridgement (Folio Society: London); Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius, Robert Brown, Nancy Bisaha, and ProQuest (Firm). I will not hesitate to describe something I myself witnessed seven years ago… Alexander Galloway, parson of Kinkell, who, besides being a man of outstanding probity, is possessed of an unmatched zeal for studying wonders… When he was pulling up some driftwood and saw that seashells were clinging to it from one end to the other, he was surprised by the unusual nature of the thing, and, out of a zeal to understand it, opened them up, whereupon he was more amazed than ever, for within them he discovered, not sea creatures, but rather birds, of a size similar to the shells that contained them …. But the notion was not entirely an alien one. It remains for me (Boece) to discuss those geese commonly called clacks, (claiks) which are commonly but wrongly imagined to be born on trees in these islands, on the basis of what I have learned from my diligent investigation of this thing. References: # The Engines of Our Ingenuity, https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm # Topographia Hibernica, http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf # Shorelines, https://sercblog.si.edu/science-superstition-and-the-goose-barnacle/ # John S. Wilkins, Species: A History of the Idea # The Barnacle Goose Myth in the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1960.tb00267.x. [8]. [3]. I’m getting dizzy – just tell me about the Barnacle Goose. Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose" and the specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek leukos "white", and opsis "faced". A goose barnacle.

Albertus dismissed the legend as “altogether absurd”, noting that he and his friends had “seen them pair and lay eggs and hatch chicks.” That was in the 13th century.

A myth about the Barnacle goose and Brant goose is that these geese emerge fully-formed from the Goose Barnacle .

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