Not me.Viking King. wrote:Are you saying there were no snakes, that he faked it all?So the story of St Patrick inciting the population to drive all snakes from Ireland is mere myth?
NOOOOOOOOOO!
Tom suggested they might not have survived the last ice age in that region.
Apparently up untill aprox 1000 years ago ... which implies Christianity is the guilty party.Viking King. wrote:But I will go along with the wolf story, during what period, do you know?
Wolves in Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Great_Britain
Wolves in IrelandEarly writing from Roman and later Saxon chronicles indicate that wolves appear to have been extraordinarily numerous on the island.[1] Unlike other British animals, wolves were unaffected by island dwarfism,[2] with certain skeletal remains indicating that they may have grown as large as Arctic wolves.[3] The species, which was a threat to livestock, human life and frequently desecrated burial sites, was exterminated from Britain through a combination of deforestation and active hunting through bounty systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Ireland
Search used:Wolves were once an integral part of the Irish countryside and culture. The earliest radiocarbon date for Irish wolf remains come from excavated cave sites in Castlepook Cave, north of Doneraile, county Cork, and date back to 34,000BP. Wolf bones discovered in a number of other cave sites, particularly in the counties of Cork, Waterford and Clare indicate the presence of wolf throughout the Midlandian ice age which probably reached its peak around 18,000-20,000BP.[1] The last wolf is said to have been killed in 1786.
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