fæþman

Posted on by

fæþman, wk.v: to embrace, enfold. (FATH-mahn)

Happy Hug A Medievalist Day!

Queen Pasiphae embracing the bull in Christine de Pizan’s L’Épître Othéa. France (Paris), c. 1410-c. 1414. London, British Library, Harley 4431, f. 116r. [bl.uk]

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 )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google 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 )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.