Crossword-Solution: WISENT 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Nibelungen-Lied, which, in the oldest form preserved to us, dates from about the year 1200, though its original composition no doubt belongs to an earlier period, thus sings: Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, he smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk.

For the species is considered as absolutely identical with the _Bison Europæus_ of modern zoology, the Bison or Wisent of the Germans, the Aurochs of the Prussians, the Zubr of the Poles, that formidable creature, which is maintained by the Czar in an ever-diminishing herd in the vast forests of Lithuania,[57] and which, perhaps, still lingers in the fastnesses of the Caucasus.

Considerably later than this it is reckoned among the German beasts of chase, for in the _Niebelungen Lied_, a poem of the twelfth century, it is said, "Dar nach schlouch er schiere, einen wisent und einen elch, Starcher ure viere, und einen grimmen schelch." "After this he straightway slew a bison and an elk, Of the strong uri four, and a single fierce schelch."[58] It is a formidable beast, standing six feet high at the shoulders, where it is protected by a thick and profuse mane.

The Nibelungen-Lied, which, in the oldest form preserved to us, dates from about the year 1,200, though its original composition no doubt belongs to an earlier period, thus sings: Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, He smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk.[70] Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.