ultor, m.n: a vulture. [OOL-tor]
A vulture with an odd beak. Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses. Paris, before 1416. Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, MS 993, f. 160r. [bestiary.ca]
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Category Archives: Animals
dracan blōd
dracan blōd, n.n: dragon’s blood, a pigment obtained from the dragon’s blood-tree. [DRA-kahn BLOD]
mold-wyrm
mold-wyrm, m.n: an earthworm, a worm in the grave. [MOLD-WURM]
Two worms rising out of the soil in Jacob van Maerlant’s Der Naturen Bloeme. Flanders, c. 1350. Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, f. 136r. [bestiary.ca]
fearh
fearh, m.n: a little pig, a farrow, litter. [FÆ-arh]
Livre de la chasse. France (Paris), c. 1406-1407. New York, Morgan Library, MS M.1044, f. 1v. [ica.themorgan.org] / via [discardingimages.tumblr.com]
cicen
cicen, n.n: a chicken. [CHI-chen]
Tacuinum sanitatis. Italy, c. 1390. Vienna Austrian National Library, Cod. Vindob. P. 2644, fol. 65r. [brandenburg1260.de]
cū-bȳre
cū-bȳre, m.n: a cow-byre, cow-shed. [KOO-BUR-eh]
heoru-swealwe
heoru-swealwe, f.n: a hawk (literal translation: sword-swallow). (“HAY-oh-roo-SWAY-all-way”)
A male hawk. Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses. France (Paris), before 1416. Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, MS 993, fol. 151v. [bestiary.ca]
hwæl-weg
hwæl-weg, m.n: the path of the whale, the ocean. (“hwæl- way”)
Bestiary from northern France, 13th century. British Library, Sloane MS 3544, f. 42v. [bl.uk]
hwæles ēðel
hwæles ēðel (kenning): whale’s home, i.e. the sea. (“HWÆL-ess AY-thell”)
Yunus (Jonah) and the whale, from Rashid al-Din’s Jami al-tawarikh (The Collection of Histories). Iran (Tabriz), c. 1314. University of Edinburgh Special Collections, MS 20, f. 23v. [collections.ed.ac.uk]
scrīc
scrīc, n: a kind of thrush, screech, fieldfare, strike. (“shreech”)
Turdus pilaris. Photo taken in Rumia, Poland, by Adam Kumiszcza (CC BY 3.0). [commons.wikimedia.org]
