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They state with only a few examples that medieval pigs were different. Pigs come with such variety it is hard to say that current depictions are wrong based on

• tptacek 4y ago
  It's wrong if modern pigs are the result of modern breeding and breeding techniques. Modern pigs are often (usually? almost always?) purebred, for instance, which isn't something you're going to get with pigs that wander around the woods herded like sheep.
• barry-cotter 4y ago
  No. Modern intensive training of pigs is a change that’s well within historical periods with extensive records. I guarantee you pigs are like dogs in that the huge majority of modern breeds are less than 200 (250 to be conservative) years old. Before that there were landraces and we know what they look like, at least roughly. Using modern pigs gives a false impression even if I’m wrong about that because until after WW2 pigs in the West that were raised industrially were raised for lard more than lean meat. There have been huge changes in what most pigs look like in living human memory.
• hardolaf 4y ago
  They also state that the games are wrong despite many of these games having put in farm more period and location specific research than the author. The author cites a few translations of a few summaries of laws and a bunch of stuff about England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland and then extrapolates across the entire medieval period and all of Europe.