쉐도잉 연습: What is the Uffington white horse? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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The Huffington White Horse is one of the most incredible prehistoric sites in the world.
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It's 3,000 years old.
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Part of its mystery is, of course, its meaning and its purpose.
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Why would this horse be carved into the side of this hill?
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The answer may lie in its location.
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This stretch of the Ridgeway marked the boundary between three Iron Age tribes.
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Each tribe minted its own coins, and archaeologists can trace their approximate territories by mapping where these coins have been found.
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So the White Horse may have been a meeting place for these three tribes, or perhaps it was made as a warning sign by one of the tribes to ward off their neighbours.
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Below the White Horse is Dragon Hill, a naturally occurring hill that was flattened for ceremony several hundred years after the White Horse was first carved.
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According to local folklore, it marked the site where St. George slayed the dragon.
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The patch of ground here marks the spot where the dragon's blood spilt onto the earth, poisoning it forever.
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This old story led to a more modern belief that the white horse was actually not a horse at all, but a dragon.
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This, however, can't be the case.
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We know from Iron Age coins and artefacts that horses were prevalent in Iron Age art.
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However, we don't have any depictions of dragons.
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We don't even know if dragons existed in the mythology of these tribes.
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If it was a dragon, it would be the first and only depiction of a dragon that we have from this era, whereas horses are everywhere.
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Some say the horse is a representation of the goddess Epona, but that's likely to be too early.
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Epona doesn't seem to arrive in Britain until after the Roman invasion.
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Horses were being used in battle for the first time during the Iron Age.
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Carving one onto a hillside would show your neighbours you had horses and you weren't afraid to use them.
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To further add to this theory, there is a hill fort above the White Horse which did have significant defences.
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There haven't been any fines to suggest there was military action that took place here, but perhaps the fort was deterrent enough.
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But beyond a show of power, the horse could have had a spiritual significance.
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It's built just below some burial mounds and some have theorised that the horse represents death and rebirth.
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We can't overlook the fact that the horse is viewed best from above.
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Could it have been carved for the pleasure of some celestial being?
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We can't say for sure but it is tantalising.
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One of the most amazing things about this horse is how it survived all of this time.
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As you can see the lines on the carving are incredibly thin.
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It would only take 30 years for the grass to grow over it and it would be covered forever.
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Every seven years or so the horse would be re-chalked.
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It's a custom that was well established by the 18th century and we know this from a newspaper article.
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It's called the scouring of the white horse.
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It was a festival with cheese rolling, wrestling, drinking and music.
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There's no source that tells us how the horse was maintained for 3,000 years.
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We only know it from recent history really.
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But in local folklore it's believed that
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if the horse is ever allowed to fade away
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that the land would suffer and the spirits of the hill would grow restless.
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I think this story might have played an important part in the horse being cared for
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and looked after after all these years.
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It's living proof of how folk tales bring people together.
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It's survived countless religious changes, the Roman invasion, the Norman invasion, plagues, wars.
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No matter what, people came together to preserve the horse.
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Its meaning and original purpose lost, but its significance has never been forgotten.
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