mere-strǣt, f.n: the road which the sea furnishes; literally, ‘mere-street’, the sea.
Note (2020-03-04): Thanks, Saibot, for identifying the image!
Note (2015-06-07): Helen Anderson notes the resemblance of these fish to the Saint-Pierre fish in her comment below. Here’s an image of one, which comes from an interesting blog post about it from Behind the French Menu.
![[commons.wikimedia.org]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Codex_Egberti#/media/File:CodexEgberti-Fol024r-CalmingAStorm.jpg){kind=link}
The fish are very distinctive, they look like John Dory, aka St. Pierre fish; they have a big spot on the side which is supposedly St. Peter’s thumbprint when he blessed them. Only thing is, they are a saltwater fish and St Peter was, we assume, a freshwater lake fisherman, but such details have never bothered anyone! I wonder if it’s a confusion of the two stories, unless that’s St Peter blessing them.
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I just googled them and they do look quite similar–very interesting! I wonder why they are in the sky rather than the water. Is that just a miraculous side effect of the blessing?
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Hopefully, the following link works: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Codex_Egberti#/media/File:CodexEgberti-Fol024r-CalmingAStorm.jpg
On Wikipedia, you will find a short article about the Codex Egberti:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Egberti
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Thank you so much — five years later and I can finally update the image with the correct info!
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