Chariots

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/12/99 2:11:17 PM Mountain Standard Time, jpmaher at neiu.edu
writes:

>In Bulgaria/1966 I saw a long-legged man "riding" a donkey: He sat, feet
dragging, >not amidships, but back on the animal's hip [pardon: I'm a city
kid]. >>

-- there was a Viking chief who was so tall he had that problem with horses --
he was known as "Hrolf Granger", "Hrolf the Walker".

Incidentally, many early Middle Eastern inscriptions show men riding horses in
that position, over the rump.