The plants and animals is a bit tricky, and some if it this one has had to assume would be. Because there are some plants and animals that are not mentioned being OF Torvaldsland, but they are there, so we would naturally assume that they were brought back on the Serpents when the Men go out raiding.
Gull, Coasting: Found in Torvaldsland is this broad winged bird with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull. Its feathers are used on the war arrows of Torvaldsland.
Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on it wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.
Book 9, page 235
Uses: tail feathers used in the war arrows of Torvaldsland
Vulo: a tawny-colored poultry bird similar to a pigeon that also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs.
She was a peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
Nomads of Gor, page 1
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Marauders of Gor, page 59
Gor even had some of our earth favorites....hot wings and chicken strips......*grins*
"Well," said Samos, chewing on a vulo wing, "I am glad there are still some women slave in Port Kar."
Raiders of Gor, page 304
I slowly, carefully, piled a plate high with rolls, eggs and fried vulo strips.
Players of Gor, page 213
Uses: eggs, meat, bait
It is important to note that every part of animals that can possibly be used, is used, as in the quote where the Men are fishing.....if it can't be eaten, used for clothing, tools, etc....it's used for bait, there is no waste in Torvaldsland.
Verr: a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool; its milk is potable as well as being used for cheese. Its meat is sometimes eaten by men.
The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63
Uses: wool, milk, meat
This quote had morgandy a bit confused, she knows we have verr for wool..she's guessing that they were brought back to Torvaldsland, and would be a bit more domesticated than the ill tempered beast mentioned here.
Tarsk:
The two bond-maids, stripped, too, like the others, for the feast, Pretty Ankles and Pouting Lips, struggled down the length of the smoky, dark hall, a spitted, roasted tarsk on their shoulders. M
Marauders of Gor, p.91
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests.
Outlaw of Gor, page 76
Fish put down the whole roasted tarsk before the men. He was sweating. He wore a single, simple rep-cloth tunic. I had had a plate collar hammered about his neck.
Raiders of Gor; p. 219
"And put bread over the fire," I said, "and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torian larma fruit."
The girl nodded and, rising gracefully, backing away a step or two, head down, turned and went to the kitchen.
Assassin of Gor, page 106
Uses: food, lard, leather
Ok...........girl happened to go to a re inactment a couple weekends ago and got to watch a man tanning....or skinning, a wild boar...it was just the skin he had, draped over a slab of wood and scraping the lard off......it was totally gross, but totally interesting and He was telling her how to do it and what it would be used for, saying that nothing on an animal would have been wasted.
girl was having a hard time finding quotes of bosk in the north....again, she's guessing that our bosk are not the mean bosk mentioned here, and that mostly we would have bosk cows, and maybe a few male bosk.....the bosk cows being a bit more mild tempered and used for milking.
Bosk
The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and dew skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews forms their thread; its bones and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and sthingys to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold. Even the dung of the bosk finds its uses on the treeless prairies, being dried and used for fuel.
Nomads of Gor, page 5
The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.
Assassin of Gor, page 168
I saw four small milk bosk grazing on the short grass. In the distance, above the acres, I could see mountains, snow capped.
Marauders
Forkbeard and I sat in the shade, under a tented awning of sewn boskhides, some thirty-five feet in length. It begins aft of the mast, which is set forward. It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole. These poles can also be used in pushing off, and thwarting collisions on rocks. The bottom edges of the tented awning are stretched taut and tied to cleats in the gunwales. There is about a foot of space between the gunwales and the bottoms of the tented awnings, permitting a view to sea on either side.
Marauders
With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu.
Marauders
Grunt, White
A large game fish that haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. Its eggs are considered a rare delicacy.
Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and, in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden sthingy, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Page 59 Marauders of Gor
Uses: eggs, cooked fish
Parsit fish
A silvery fish having brown stripes, the follow the 'parsit current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south.
Book 12, page 38
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Page 59 Marauders of Gor
The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and, with knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish.
Page 61 Marauders of Gor
The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. Another of the bond-maids wasthen freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish.
Page 63-64 Marauders of Gor
Uses: food, trade
Tabuk, Northern
massive, tawny and swift is much larger than its smaller southern variety; standing ten hands at the shoulders. They have a single spiraling ivory horn, which at its base can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter and over a yard in length. The Red Hunters are tied to the tabuk for sustenance and the devices of daily living much like the Wagon Peoples and the bosk, and the Red Savages and the kailiauk.
Beasts of Gor page 152
"It is a herd of northern tabuk," said Samos, "a gigantic herd, one of several. The herd of Tancred winters in the rims of the northern forests south and east of Torvaldsland. In the spring, short-haired and hungry, they emerge from the forests hind migrate northward." He indicated the map. "They follow this route," he said, "emerging from the forest here, skirting Torvaldsland here, to the east, and then moving west above Torvaldsland, to the sea. They follow the shore of Thassa north, cross Ax Glacier here, like dark clouds on the ice, then continue to follow the shore north here, until they then turn eastward into the tundra of the polar basin, for their summer grazing. With the coming of winter, long-haired and fat, they return by the same route to the forests. This migration, like others of its kind, occurs annually."
Beasts of Gor
Uses: meat, furs
Gant, Arctic:
Migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north. When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples.
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory artic gant. They nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
Beasts of Gor, page 196
Uses: eggs, possible meat
Bees
It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland, brewed from fermented honey, thick and sweet.
Page 89-90 Marauders of Gor
" I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might cratfsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made."
Mauraders of Gor, page 81
Uses: produce honey for meade, food, and wax
Kur (Kurii plural)
In the doorway, silhouetted against flames behind them we saw great, black, shaggy figures Then one leapt within the hall. In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps some seven feet in length; about its left arm was a spiral band of gold; it was the Kur which had addressed the assembly. It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head. no one could move. then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when they are preparing to take blood.
Page 203 Marauders of Gor
That would be the animals that are of, or in, Torvaldsland, girl has more to share, of some animals that might be seen from time to time, but technically aren't OF our region.
These next animals are of the Polar North or the Northern Forest, while not of Torvaldsland, they are of the lands that border us and it's likely that from time to time they may be seen in those areas of our region close to the borders.
Lart, Snow
a small 4-legged mammal, about 10 inches high, weighing between 8 and 12 pounds. The snow lart has two stomachs and hunts in summer, filling the second stomach in the fall to last the animal through winter. Its pelt is snowy white and thick. It is considered valuable, selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk. They are found in the Polar North.
Beasts of Gor, page 74
girl thinks with as many type of sleen found in the Polar North, if they had a football team it would have to be called The Fighting Sleen
Sea Sleen, Black
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar north.
Beasts of Gor, page 38
Sea Sleen, Brown
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar north.
Beasts of Gor, page 38
Sea Sleen, Flat-Nosed
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar north.
Beasts of Gor, page 38
Sea Sleen, Rogue
rare broader headed more dangerous variety of sea sleen found in the Polar North.
Beasts of Gor, page 283
Sea Sleen, Tufted
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar north.
Beasts of Gor, page 38
Whale, Baleen
Bluish-white spotted whale with a blunt fin, hunted by the Red Hunters.
Book 12, page 265 and 334
Whale, Hunjer
Toothed whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
Book 12, page 36
Whale, Karl
Four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
Book 12, page 36
These two are birds of the Northern Forests
Gim, Horned:
A small purplish owl-like bird with tufts over eyes c. 4 oz. in weight which inhabits the forests of northern Gor.
It was a small bird, about the size of a sparrow, but it looked a bit like a tiny owl, with tufts over its eyes. It was purplish. It looked at me quizzically. It was perched on some split piping.
Captive of Gor, page 39
Hermit, Yellow-Breasted:
a bird of the Northern Forest, it beats with a sharp beak against trees to hunt for larvae.
Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the tur tree, hunting for larvae.
Hunters of Gor, page 106
girl also wanted to mention this next animal, while she can find no mention of it being in or of Torvaldsland, there was one lurking about the Great Lodge so she thought to add this information. she does wish to say though, that this animal is not from our region, and the chances of ever seeing one would be slim to none, in her opinion, based on her research.
Larl, White
seen in icy mountains of the Sardar they are the largest of the big cats standing 8 feet; upper canines extending below their jaws very similar to saber-toothed tiger; long tails are tufted at the ends.
I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen white larls before.
They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder.
Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient saber-toothed tigers. The four nostril slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitement. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth.
Priest Kings of Gor, page 22
Types of Sleen
Note: While the following may not spefically be found in the North, they are included for knowledge, description and or clarification of the Sleen.
Sleen, Forest
It is long, up to 20 feet, sinuous, black or brown in color. It resembles a lizard, except it is furred and mammalian. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
The sleen has six legs. It is long, sinuous; it resembles a lizard, save that it is furred and mammalian. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
Captive of Gor, page 155
Sleen, Gray
said to be Gor's finest tracker, this six-legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver gray fur. It has an agile, sinuous body, thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet long. The gray sleen has a broad triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue. Its widely set eyes have slit-like pupils. This breed is relentless and tenacious. It can follow a scent that is weeks old for a thousand pasangs.
To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms about them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, as thick as a rum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weight a thousand pounds. Its broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but it was furred. This thing was a mammal, or mammalian. Its eyes now had pupils like slits, like those of a cat in sunlight. So quickly then might its adaptive mechanisms have functioned. About its muzzle were gray hairs, grayer than the silvered gray of its fur. It had six legs.
Dancer of Gor, page 160
I was silent. I was frightened with those huge jaws, the two rings of fangs, the long, dark tongue, over me.
Dancer of Gor, page 161
"The sleen," he said, "and especially the gray sleen, is Gor's finest tracker. It is a relentless, tenacious tracker. It can follow a scent that is weeks old, for a thousand pasangs.
Dancer of Gor, page 161
Sleen, Hunting
the hunting sleen is a hunter of men. It is 20 feet in length and weighs eleven hundred pounds. This domesticated forest sleen is double fanged and six-footed. It's tail tends to switch back and forth, getting rigid, as it hunts, it's ears flatten against it's head just prior to it's final 'charge' attack on it's prey.
Beasts of Gor, pages 12-13
Sleen, Prairie
the prairie sleen is tawny in color, and are smaller than the forest sleen, but quite as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master. They are killed with their owner dies.
farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but unite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's heads moving form side to side, continually testing the wind
Nomads of Gor, page 2
The six toed rock tharlarion
this may also have had something to do with the fact that the famine, finally, after four seasons, abated; the status of the thrall, correspondingly, however, such as it was, declined; he was now regarded as much in the same category with the urts that one clubs in the Sa-Tarna sheds, or are pursued by small pet sleen, kept there for that purpose, or with the tiny, six-toed rock tharlarion of southern Torvaldsland, favored for their legs and tails, which are speared by children.
Marauders