Savernake Forest Part (Flipping) Five: Fallow (O. Eng.: Fealu) Deer and poetry about an ogre

Savernake Forest is so fascinating that I'm back for part five. In a few minutes, I come across a herd of fallow deer (Old English: fealu, "wild beast"), then I set off in search of Bitham Pond which appears in an ancient Saxon charter of Great Bedwyn under the name of Bydan Hammes. Next, I quote ogre poetry (þyrsogre/giant).

These historic walking videos focus on the English landscape in and around the South West of England (although I make rare forays into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into how the landscape was viewed in the past.

But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (even if that is the case) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, its roads and its ditches.

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