Pig: Medieval Times

Pigs continued to be important meat animals in W. Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Country pigs lived on pannage; indeed, in the Domesday Book, woods were valued according to the number of swine they could support. In towns, pigs lived in sties, or even in people’s houses, scavenging domestic rubbish in the streets. In England, bacon was a popular food of the Anglo-Saxons. The Normans, as with cattle and sheep, appropriated the best parts of the pig, calling the meat by the French word porc, giving the English language pork.