Which character from Sir Walter Scott's novel ‘Marmion’ gave his name to a breed of dog?
"Dandie Dinmont Terrier A Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a small Scottish dog breed in the terrier family. The breed has a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive topknot of hair on the head. They are friendly but tough, and are suitable for interaction with older children. There are no breed-specific health concerns, but they can be affected by spinal problems due to their elongated body, and the breed is affected by canine cancer at a higher than average rate. The breed is named after a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott's novel, ""Guy Mannering"". This character, Dandie Dinmont,"
"the dog alone. Maida (dog) Maida (1816-1824) sometimes called a deerhound, was a crossbreed from a Pyrenean shepherd and a Scottish greyhound,(Landseer's painting of Maida and a Deerhound), belonging to Sir Walter Scott, and reported to be his favourite dog. Named after the Battle of Maida, which took place in 1806, he was a gift from Alexander Macdonell of Glengarry, a friend of Scott, and whose brother led the 78th Highlanders in the battle, a victory for the British against the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Scott wrote to his son Charles that ""Old Maida died suddenly in his straw"
"Maida (dog) Maida (1816-1824) sometimes called a deerhound, was a crossbreed from a Pyrenean shepherd and a Scottish greyhound,(Landseer's painting of Maida and a Deerhound), belonging to Sir Walter Scott, and reported to be his favourite dog. Named after the Battle of Maida, which took place in 1806, he was a gift from Alexander Macdonell of Glengarry, a friend of Scott, and whose brother led the 78th Highlanders in the battle, a victory for the British against the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Scott wrote to his son Charles that ""Old Maida died suddenly in his straw last week, after"
"of a large, shaggy, black mastiff"" in ""Peveril of the Peak"" (1823), an installment of his Waverley novels. Here he freely adapted the folklore to suit his plot, but Scott derived knowledge of this folklore through Waldron's work (see below), as he candidly gave credit in his ""author's notes"". Note how Scott took liberty to scale up the size of the dog in his novel. William Walter Gill (d. 1963), has preserved some of the local lore regarding the Black Dog appearing around the Manx landscape, as well as firsthand eyewitness accounts: A field near Ballamodda, near a field named"
"(including letters from Christopher Isherwood and John Gielgud). Pongo, the canine protagonist of ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"", was named after Smith's own pet Dalmatian, the first of nine. Smith got the idea for her novel when a friend remarked of her own dalmatians: ""Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat!"" The story was adapted by Disney as a 1961 animated film, ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"". Smith wrote a sequel published in 1967, ""The Starlight Barking"". Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys ""Dodie"" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best"
"books. The rabbit Marlon Bundo was named after actor Marlon Brando and has been with the Pence family at the United States Naval Observatory since 2017. Other pets owned by the second couple include an Australian Shepherd named Harley, and two cats named Hazel and Pickle. Marlon Bundo was acquired via Craigslist by Pence's daughter Charlotte Pence in 2013 when she was a freshman at DePaul University. At the time she needed a rabbit for a short film student project. In the film, Bundo portrayed a ""symbol of rebellion in a world of conformity"" as a rabbit who repeatedly escapes"
"chamomile (""""romashka"""") would represent the Romanovs. Nora loved and had many dogs; one of her dogs was named ""Maron"", which is a very unusual name for Bulgaria. The name is also an anagram for ""Roman"", short for Romanov. More simply, the meaning of ""marron"" in French is ""brown"", which is not unusual for the dog of a French teacher. The names of her other dogs were Rex, Tangra, Beba, Jimmy and Johnny. Nora was a smoker and used opiums. Nora would tell that she picked up this habit from an aunt of hers. On the other hand, Dr. Alexiev would"
"a good supper, which, considering his weak state, was rather a deliverance; he is buried below his monument, on which the following epitaph is engraved in Latin ""[Maidae marmorea dormis sub imagine Maida / Ante fores domini sit tibi terra levis]"", thus Englished by an eminent hand : - The monument mentioned is a statue of the dog at the hall door of Scott's home, Abbotsford House. A statue of Scott at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh includes Maida gazing up at the seated figure. William Allan painted ""Sir Walter Scott with His Dog 'Maida'"" in 1831. Alexander Nasmyth painted"
"had learned of the prowess of these types of specialist terriers for working both fox and otter. When he wrote ""Guy Mannering"", he included a character by the name of Dandie Dinmont who owned a number of terriers named Pepper and Mustard after the colours of their coats. The Dinmont character was partly based on the real life farmer and terrier owner, James Davidson, who too used the generic terms of Pepper and Mustard for his dogs depending on their coats. Davidson's dogs came from a variety of sources including the dogs of the Allan, Anderson and Faas families. Davidson"
"The book itself was dedicated to the Duchess, with an image of her as the frontispiece. The Duchess was involved in the breeding of several different dog breeds, including Borzois, Fox Terriers (both Smooth and Wire), Whippets, Scottish Deerhounds and Clumber Spaniels; the breed named after the ancestral home of the Dukes of Newcastle. She was a well-known conformation show judge of the breeds she was involved with. The Duchess was first introduced to dogs when her mother was given a Borzoi named Spain as a gift from the Spanish Marquis of Quandelmina. With no quarantine laws in the United"
"Hampshire. She was a relative of his stepmother and the daughter of a wealthy Boston newspaper family. The couple operated the 1300-acre Wonalancet Farm and Inn. Walden began training and breeding sled dogs at the farm. On January 17, 1917, a litter of three dogs was born that Walden had bred from a Greenland husky and a mastiff-type farm dog. One of those dogs, Chinook, was the progenitor of the breed that bears his name. He named the dog after a favorite Eskimo dog he worked with in the Yukon. The breed would eventually be named the state dog of"
"was based on an 18th-century gypsy named Jean Gordon. Dandie Dinmont is a rough but friendly farmer from the Liddesdale hills, who owns a number of terriers—the Dandie Dinmont Terrier is named after him. An upland sheep-raiser of Scott's acquaintance named Willie Elliot, of Millburnholm, was probably the model for this character. Dominie Sampson, according to Nuttall, was ""a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life"". ""Dominie"" is the Lowland Scots term for a school master. Tib Mumps was the disreputable landlady of the inn"
"Dogmatix Dogmatix () is a fictional tiny white terrier dog who is a companion to Obelix in the ""Asterix"" comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is ""Idéfix"", itself a pun on the French expression ""idée fixe"" (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. Dogmatix is the only animal among the main characters of the series. His role is minor in most of the stories, significant mainly as a 'bone' of contention between Asterix and Obelix as to whether he should be allowed to accompany them on their adventures. However, he is"
"dogs into the water, each with an arm in the ship Captain’s new scarlet waistcoat, to the annoyance of the Captain and the amusement of the crew. Byron had a great love of animals, most notably for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. When the animal contracted rabies, Byron nursed him, albeit unsuccessfully, without any thought or fear of becoming bitten and infected. Although deep in debt at the time, Byron commissioned an impressive marble funerary monument for Boatswain at Newstead Abbey, larger than his own, and the only building work which he ever carried out on his estate. In his"
"Scottish Terrier The Scottish Terrier (; also known as the Aberdeen Terrier), popularly called the Scottie, is a breed of dog. Initially one of the highland breeds of terrier that were grouped under the name of ""Skye Terrier"", it is one of five breeds of terrier that originated in Scotland, the other four being the modern Skye, Cairn, Dandie Dinmont, and West Highland White Terriers. They are an independent and rugged breed with a wiry outer coat and a soft dense undercoat. The First Earl of Dumbarton nicknamed the breed ""the diehard"". The modern breed is said to be able"
"scheme and helped him to carry it into effect. The land selected was a plot at Teddington which Blackmore had seen and admired for some time. Here he built his new house – completed in 1860 – in which he lived for the rest of his life. He called it Gomer House after one of his favourite dogs, a Gordon Spaniel. In the extensive grounds he created an market garden specialising in the cultivation of fruit. The grounds were surrounded by high walls which served to keep out thieves and to aid the ripening of tender fruit. His knowledge of"
"regular English language translators of the ""Asterix"" albums. Dogmatix Dogmatix () is a fictional tiny white terrier dog who is a companion to Obelix in the ""Asterix"" comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is ""Idéfix"", itself a pun on the French expression ""idée fixe"" (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. Dogmatix is the only animal among the main characters of the series. His role is minor in most of the stories, significant mainly as a 'bone' of contention between Asterix and Obelix as to whether he should be allowed to"
"and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who at first denied owning the dog to the media. His name was finally divulged after the Duchess of Cambridge visited Oxford and told Abubakr Hussain, a child at Rose Hill Primary School. The name ""Lupo"" is from the Italian word for Wolf and derived from Latin. It was reported that the Duchess has named the dog after the family of her paternal great grandmother, Olive Christiana Lupton (d.1936); the Lupton family crest has wolves on it. The dog continued to accompany the Duchess of Cambridge while her husband was deployed with the Royal Air"
"by a werewolf. Octavian's two young sons are snatched away by a lion and an ape during their journey into exile with their mother. Margaret in the verse romance ""Sir Tryamour"" has her cause aided by Sir Roger's intelligent dog. Cristobel, in the English romance ""Sir Eglamour of Artois"", has her baby son snatched away by a griffin and delivered stork-like to the King of Israel. William and Emelior, in the mid-14th century Middle English version of ""William of Palerne"", dress themselves in deerskins as another disguise, when the bearskins they are wearing have become a handicap to them. Sir"
"documented his breeding, and he has been accepted as the originator of the modern breed. Some interbreeding with other breeds took place in the mid-1800s, which may have introduced Dachshund blood into the breed, although certain breeders maintained pure-bred lines. The Dachshund theory was first introduced by John Henry Walsh under the pseudonym of ""Stonehenge"" in the 1880s, and was denied by many breeders of that era. By the mid-1800s, the breed was known as the Dandie Dinmont Terrier, and became sought after for hunting after Scott's writings were published. They remain the only dog breed to have been named"
"the otters, which Allan refused. Allan died on 18 February 1779, and his dogs passed into the care of his son James. James's son eventually inherited the dogs and sold a dog named Old Pepper to Mr Francis Sommer who came from Town Yetholm on the Scottish side of the border. Old Pepper was descended from one of Willie Allan's dogs who had worked Lord Ravensworth's manor. The breed remained relatively unknown outside of the Borders until 1815 when Sir Walter Scott's novel ""Guy Mannering"" was published. Scott had spent time in the area whilst the Sheriff of Selkirkshire and"
"referring to the bloodhound and the sleuth hound, but adding that the (white) talbot was the ""prime"" example of this type of hound. The origin of both the name and the animal is uncertain. In a quotation from about 1449, the king referred to John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury as ""Talbott, oure good dogge"", perhaps as a play on his name, or in allusion to the family badge. In an MS in the British Library John Talbot is shown presenting a Book of Romances to Queen Margaret, with a white dog standing behind him, which serves, symbolically, to identify"
"the final scene. ""Typhoon"" by Joseph Conrad has a nameless boatswain who tells Captain MacWhirr of a ""lump"" of men going overboard during the peak of the storm. Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" is alternatively referred to as a ""bos'un"" and a ""boatswain's mate."" Another boatswain from literature is Smee from ""Peter Pan"". Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. Byron wrote the famous poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey. Quartermaster is the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA, an older"
"nickname of ""Tartans"". Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia also uses the Scottie as their mascot. The dog's image is a symbol for the Radley brand of bags. The amateur athletics organisation Jogscotland has an anthropomorphic Scottish Terrier as its mascot. Scottish Terrier The Scottish Terrier (; also known as the Aberdeen Terrier), popularly called the Scottie, is a breed of dog. Initially one of the highland breeds of terrier that were grouped under the name of ""Skye Terrier"", it is one of five breeds of terrier that originated in Scotland, the other four being the modern Skye, Cairn, Dandie"
"such as Bullmastiffs and St. Bernards, with the justification that these were considered close relatives to the Mastiff. In 1959, a Dogue de Bordeaux, Fidelle de Fenelon, was imported from France to the USA, registered as a Mastiff, and became the 16th animal in the post-war gene pool. Since that time, the breed has gradually been restored in Britain, has reached 28th most popular breed in the USA, and is now found worldwide. English Mastiff The English Mastiff is a breed of extremely large dog (often known simply as the Mastiff) perhaps descended from the ancient Alaunt and Pugnaces Britanniae,"
"""Mirabilia"" section is thought to be not part of the original work, but to have been composed shortly after, and is attached to many, though not all of the manuscripts. Two of the marvels are Arthurian lore (Chapter 73 of the ""Historia""). It might be worth noting that old editions give ""Troynt"" as the name of the great boar and ""Anir"" as the name of Arthur's tragic son, from the Harleian manuscript, but Fletcher suggested the variant readings ""Troit"" and ""Amr"" be preferred (since they are closer to the Welsh forms of those names). The first concerns Arthur's dog, Cabal"
"the greatest warrior legends of that era. Bran and Sceolan were the most famous dogs of the poet warrior, Fionn mac Cumhaill. The mother of Bran and Sceolan was Tuiren, Fionn Mac Cumhaill's aunt, transformed into a hound by a Sidhe woman Uct Dealbh, irritated by Tuiren's marriage with Uct Dealbh's husband. (Audio podcast of one version of Bran's first adventures with Fionn Mac Cumhaill at http://www.podcasts.ie/armchair-ireland/myths-legends/) In Welsh mythology, Gwyn ap Nudd was the ruler of Annwn (the Underworld) and escorted the souls of the dead there, leading a pack of supernatural hounds, called the ""Cŵn Annwn"" (Hounds of"
"of Sir Walter Scott's novels. So popular and influential were Landseer's paintings of dogs in the service of humanity that the name Landseer came to be the official name for the variety of Newfoundland dog that, rather than being black or mostly black, features a mix of both black and white. It was this variety Landseer popularised in his paintings celebrating Newfoundlands as water rescue dogs, most notably ""Off to the Rescue"" (1827), ""A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society"" (1838), and ""Saved"" (1856). The paintings combine the Victorian conception of childhood with the appealing idea of noble animals devoted"
"Samson is a sweet naive Old English Sheepdog who can speak but consistently mispronounces certain words and cannot get names right. His best friend is his owner Gert. Samson is in love with Bobientje, another Old English Sheepdog, and Gert is in love with Marlène. Bobientje and Marlène are both unseen characters, but are mentioned in almost every episode. Samson and Gert live together in a big house at 101 Main Street, where a lot of funny and chaotic situations take place. Their original (clumsy) neighbour, Joop Mengelmoes, broke the doorbell at the house when they first met, in the"
"he was planning to write a book on the raid, 9 out of 10 replied ""What are you going to call the dog?"". He found that the three characters connected with the raid that most people had heard of were Guy Gibson, Barnes Wallis and Nigger the dog. Nigger (dog) Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously a member of 106 Squadron. Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights and was a great favourite"
"in London. It was while at Masius that he met his wife Hanny, a copywriter. Grange and Hanny have two sons (both now married), a granddaughter named Maddie and grandsons Leo Tomasz, Samuel (Sam) and Myles. The ""Roobarb"" cartoon character is loosely based on Calveley's own dog, a Welsh Border Collie. Custard, Calveley tells us, was drawn after the huge cat who lived next door. The ""Roobarb"" (1974) television series was commissioned by the BBC, who sold the series to more than 40 countries around the world. In his book, ""Roobarb: An Illuminated Biogwoofy"", Calveley describes how the real dog"
"named in the original shorts – he was called the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in ""The Hasty Hare"" in 1952 – but decades later, when the character attracted merchandising interest, the current name was selected. Marvin hails from the planet Mars, but is often found elsewhere. He is often accompanied by his dog ""K-9"", and sometimes by other creatures (one gag, first used in ""Hare-Way to the Stars"" (1958), being candy-sized ""Instant Martians"" that become full-size on addition of drops of water). Marvin wears a Roman soldier's uniform, with basketball shoes. The style of these shoes resembles the Chuck"
"Anne Robinson (whom K9 addressed as ""Mistress"") said ""I'm so sorry"" before declaring him the weakest link. In the final area of the game ""Secret of Evermore"", the main character's dog appears similar to K9 and can fire lasers from its mouth. Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center have dubbed two intelligent mobile robots designed to explore the surface of Mars ""K-9"" and ""Gromit"". NASA's K-9 is named after both ""Doctor Who""'s K-9 and Marvin the Martian's pet dog, K-9. Several individuals have built their own personal K9 robots, ranging from radio controlled units like that used on the show"