hrān

hrān, m.n: a reindeer. (HRAWN / ˈhɹaːn)

Glæd Geol!

One of Santa’s flying reindeer? From the British Library medieval manuscripts blog: Detail of an imaginative marginal grotesque, a winged deer about to take flight; from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1470-1472, Harley MS 4379, f. 19v.

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