fugel-timber

Posted on by

fugel-timber, n.n: a young bird, lit. bird-material. (“foo-yell-teem-ber”)

pelican

The pelican revives her young with blood from her own breast. Museum Meermanno, MMW, 10 B 25, fol. 32r. France, c. 1450. From The Medieval Bestiary.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s