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About the Scandinavian Breed
.This term includes the ‘Fjord Horse’
of Norway, the Gudbrandsdal, another Norwegian indigenous breed,
and the native ponies of Sweden, Finland and the Baltic States.
In appearance and ancestry, so far as is known, they belong
to that group of horses comprising the ponies of the British
Isles and North-west Europe generally, deriving from what Professor
Cossor Ewart has called Equus celticus. At the time when extensive
animal migration seems to have been in progress, the British
Isles were joined to Europe by land, which tends to support
the idea of common origin.
The Finnish horse of today is of medium size, very agile and
nimble-footed, with great staying power and toughness of constitution,
good, hard feet and strong legs, body thick and muscular. It
is mainly used for draught in either wheeled carts or sleighs.
The Swedish horse, according to R. Bolin in ‘Contribution
of the Knowledge of the Origin of the Horse in Sweden’,
was originally introduced into the country from the Baltic regions
from a type supposed to have originated in the Ukraine. There
have been found in Sweden the neck vertebrae of a prehistoric
horse identical with the Russian tarpan. Besides this native
animal, which varies very little from the Finnish pony, there
are various cultivated breeds in Sweden that are considered
separately.
Historically horses are not mentioned in Sweden until the 6th
century, by which time the Swedes were renowned for their horses.
Generally the horse appears late in Scandinavia, as may be gathered
from their mythology. Thor, the most ancient of the northern
gods, is never shown on horseback or in a chariot; the later
deities, however, have taken to the horse, Odin on his eight-legged
grey ‘Sleipnir’, Heimdal on a yellow-maned horse.
In Norway, in addition to the horse of the Fjords, there is
an original type of island horse known as the Gudbrandsdal,
which was well known in North Europe and has been one of the
past founders of the modern Swedish breeds. He is a larger animal
than the Fjord horse and a good riding horse too.
In the Baltic States are horses of the same primitive types,
notably the small Estonian or Smudish (Zmudzin), the Zemaitukas.
A Baltic derivative of these types is the Pange, which is a
cross between native mares and trotter stallions, and is very
popular as a riding and working horse. It ranges between 14
and 15 hands high, and has all the tough enduring qualities
of its ancient forbears, together with good temper and speed.
In reviewing this breed it is well to have in mind what has
been written of the Fjord, the Gudbrandsdal and indeed any and
all of the North European breeds, because of their close affinity,
and in the main their original tap-root. Just as the tropical
and semi-tropical climates have produced the ‘hot-blood’
type of horse, as exemplified by the Arab, so the cold northern
climates have evolved the ‘cold-blood’ breeds such
as that now described.
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Arab
| Akhal-Teke
| Albino
| American
Quarter | American
Saddle | Andalusian
| Anglo-Arab
| Anglo-Arab
in France | Anglo-Kabarda
| Anglo-Norman
| Appaloosa
| Ardennes
| Australian
(Waler) | Austrian
| Balearic
| Barb
| Basuto
| Batak/Deli
| Beberbeck
| Beetwk
| Boulonnais
| Brabancon
| Breton
| Budyonovsky
| Burmese
(Shan) | Camargue
| Caspian
| Charollais
Half-bred | Cleveland
Bay | Clydesdale
| Cob
(Riding) | Connemara
| Criollo
| Dales
| Danish
| Danubian
| Dartmoor
| Donsky
| Dutch
Draught | East
Bulgarian | Exmoor
| Falabella
| Fell
| Flemish
| French
Thoroughbred | Friesian
| Galiceno
| Gelderland
| Gidran
and Nonius | Gothland
| Groningen
| Gudbrandsdal
| Hack
| Hackney
Horse | Hackney
Pony | Hafflinger
| Hanoverian
| Highland
| Holstein
| Hungarian
Shagya | Hunter
| Iceland
| Iomud
| Italian
| Jutland
| Kabarda
| Karabair
and Lokai | Karabakh
| Kathiawari
and Marwari | Klepper
| Knabstrup
| Konik
| Latvian
| Limousin
(Half-bred) | Lipizzaner
| Manipur
| Mecklenburg
| Mongolian
| Morgan
| Mustang
| New
Forest | Norwegian-Fjord
| Oldenburg
| Orlov
| Palomino
| Percheron
| Persian
| Pinto
| Pleven
| Polish
Arab | Polish
Half-bred | Polish
Thoroughbred | Rhenish
| Russian
Saddle | Russian
Steppe | Russian
Thoroughbred | Scandinavian
| Schleswig
| Shetland
| Shire
| Spanish
| Spiti
and Bhutia | Standard
Bred | Strelets
| Suffolk
| Swedish
| Tarpan
| Tennessee
Walking Horse | Tersky
| Thoroughbred
| Timor
Pony | Trakehner
| Turk
| Ukrainian
| Vendéen-Charentais
Half-bred | Viatka
| Welsh
Cob | Welsh
Mountain and Welsh Pony | Zeeland
Horse | Zemaitukas
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