Wilfred The Hairy
Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy, was Count of Urgell. Cerdanya (870–897), Barcelona, Girona, Besalú (878–897) and Ausona (886–897).
He was responsible for the repopulation of the long-depopulated no-man's land around Vic (the county of Ausona, a frontier between Christian and Muslim), the re-establishment of the bishopric of Vic and the foundation of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, where he is buried.
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“There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here. He squats in me.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)