Tristan's Hiudan, the hound, in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and Isolde...

	There were amusements enough for them to follow by day. They rode
out into their wilderness hunting wildfowl and game with their crossbow now and
then, when fancy took them, and sometimes they chased the red deer with Hiudan
their hound, who as yet could not run without barking. But it was not long before
Tristan had trained him to run most perfectly through field and forest on the scent
of hart and hind and all varieties of game without giving a cry. And so they spent
many a day, not for what such sport brings hunting-bag, but solely for the
amusement it affords. they exercised hound and bow, I am convinced, more for
their pleasure and recreation than for their table. What they did was entirely as
they please, and as they felt inclined.

-- Gottfried von Strassburg. (13th c.) Tristan and Isolde. Francis G. Gentry, ed. The German Library, vol.3. (New York : Continuum, 1988), p 226.

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