Hart (deer) "As pants the hart for cooling streams" for its common meter (CM) rendering of the Psalm 42 text. Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd"
Deer forest deer can move freely across large tracts of hill country. Boundaries, referred to as "marches", are usually marked by a river, stream, ridge, shoreline or similar natural feature. "Hind forests" and "stag forests" are so called because of the tendencies of red deer to form large, single-sex herds outside the autumn rutting time, and most forests hold either a resident stag herd or a hind herd for much of the year. In "deer forest", the term "forest" is derived from the ancient and medieval use of the Latin word "foris" - "open" or "waste", to denote an extensive outdoor "waste