543 Hortobágy A simple saddle - interview. A "prics" nyereg

[Cantalupo67]

Please, may someone translate this interview in italian or english? thanks!!!

[ijaszlevi]

@Cantalupo67 It is about, how people invented saddle without belt. It is used by herdsmen looking after horse, only in Hortobágy(Hungary), and the old heardsmen said, that you can't stand on the saddle, because it makes the skin rude, etc.

[Cantalupo67]

@ijaszlevi Thanks, you're very kind...but may be patient and translate the "etc." also, please? grazie grazie grazie grazie!!!

[ijaszlevi]

@Cantalupo67 So etc is: you can't stand up on the saddle, because it is not practical when you're riding on the hors, because it shakes you so much, that is makes the saddles skin broken, and rude, so it's not the western style saddle with belt, and it's better for herding, 'cause when you fall down form the horse, you fall with the saddle, and the horse won't pull you for miles :D

[Cantalupo67]

@Cantalupo67 ...that's why!!! Many, many thanks dear ijaszlevi - you give me the reply to a question I have in the mind since I was a little child :-)

[druidahun]

@Cantalupo67

Also ( as I know ), there is another explication: After the 1848 revolution, the saddle was forbidden by the austrians, beacuse a lot of herdsman joined as rebel against the austrian rule. And beacuse this kind of saddle doesn't have a belt, and stark construction, it doesn't count as real saddle.

Search for "patrac" and "priccs" in google if you want to see how does it look like.

[zapkorte]

@druidahun That's right. Moreover later owning a saddle horse was forbidden, too, to preventing crimes made by outlaw riders. In the late 1860s there was wild western like scenes around Szeged. Well known outlaws derailed trains, ripped stage-coaches. Finally they from Wienna sent grauf Gedeon Ráday to put and end to the story, and gave him carte blanche. He arrested and abused every suspicious peolpe, made manhunts etc, and 4 years later delinquency was almost completely gone.