The substance taxea[REF] or adeps taxonina,[REF] "badger fat," was regarded as medically potent and traded by Germanic and Celtic peoples to the Greeks and Romans [REF].
Although Isidore of Seville understands the word as equivalent to Latin lardum, "bacon, lard,"[REF] taxea is a secretion of the badger's subcaudal glands comparable in its medicinal use to the better-known castoreum, an ingredient from the scent sacs of the beaver.