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Namely: when did the idea that unicorns disappeared in the Great Biblical Flood become part of the common culture?
I mean, in the medieval period people believed to things: 1) that they themselves lived after the Great Flood, and 2) that unicorns existed in the real world.
I'm assuming that the idea was around sometime before Shel Silverstein wrote his song (I won't credit him with the power to create the idea out of whole cloth – what I've learned of him since I first became a fan has made me thoroughly dislike him as a person).
First of all, the idea of the Great Flood is such a despicable one, but that particular demise for unicorns is such a killjoy. … It may be perverse, but I prefer to think of them as hunted to extinction by foolish and greedy humans.
I mean, in the medieval period people believed to things: 1) that they themselves lived after the Great Flood, and 2) that unicorns existed in the real world.
I'm assuming that the idea was around sometime before Shel Silverstein wrote his song (I won't credit him with the power to create the idea out of whole cloth – what I've learned of him since I first became a fan has made me thoroughly dislike him as a person).
First of all, the idea of the Great Flood is such a despicable one, but that particular demise for unicorns is such a killjoy. … It may be perverse, but I prefer to think of them as hunted to extinction by foolish and greedy humans.
