heoru-swealwe

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heoru-swealwe, f.n: a hawk (literal translation: sword-swallow). (“HAY-oh-roo-SWAY-all-way”)

0904 heoru-swealwe

A male hawk. Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses. France (Paris), before 1416. Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, MS 993, fol. 151v. [bestiary.ca]

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