Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 241, Hastin.

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Right now, members are hearing about what the last kingdom got right and wrong in season

1. And we're releasing them fast and furious so that way you'll be all caught up when

season 2 releases on Netflix. And spoiler alert, while they do get some stuff wrong,

they also get some really esoteric stuff right. Here's a sample.

I kept seeing as I was watching this, they would have these cool like pan shots through

the village. And I kept seeing these pigs that look like sheep, like sheep pigs, they're

really pig sheep. I've never seen such a thing before. Really curly hair.

Really curly hair. They literally look like pig sheep. So I was like, that's what is that?

So I looked that up and apparently it's this very specific breed that hangs out in Eastern

Europe. They're called mangalica. It sounds like something that sci-fi. I'm probably just

pronouncing it wrong. But then I saw that the only other curly hair pig that in existence

is actually extinct ancient breed of pig that existed in England called the Lincolnshire

Curly Cote. But these were actually the pigs that you would have seen back then that they're

one of the oldest breeds that lived in Britain. They would have been one of the more prolific

breeds. They've gone extinct just in this last century because they weren't being bred

anymore. So someone cared enough to make sure that there were curly hair'd pigs in the

establishment shots. That's the funny thing, right? Like there's...

Like the shields are 100% wrong, but the pigs are 100% right?

Right. That's the thing where you're left being like, okay, there must be separate groups

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