wæfer-gange, f.n: a spider (lit. walker-weaver). (“wa-ver-gong-eh”)
See the new spider post on Dēor-hord, a medieval and modern bestiary!
A six-legged spider spins a web. Jacob van Maerlant’s Der Naturen Bloeme. Flanders, c. 1350. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, fol. 130r. [manuscripts.kb.nl]
illustration by James Merry
I love that! Makes me not so scared of spiders!
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I know, right? So cute. Except–as someone pointed out already–that the medieval spider is the size of a tree!
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