Serving a roasted boar's head was for many years associated with Christmas feasting in England.
It
probably harks back to the Norse custom of sacrificing a boar at Yuletide in
honor of the Norse god Freyr.
A
more amusing telling of the story relates to a student at Oxford's Queen’s
College who was attacked one Christmas Day by a wild boar.
As
the Boar charged the poor student was armed with nothing more lethal than a
copy of Aristotle, so with all his strength he thrust the book down the boar's
throat killing it in its tracks.
The
student however wanted his book back, so he cut off the animal's head which he
took back to the college where it was served for Christmas dinner amidst much
pomp and ceremony.
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