ultor

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Hana Videen

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]

dracan blōd

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Hana Videen

dracan blōd, n.n: dragon’s blood, a pigment obtained from the dragon’s blood-tree. [DRA-kahn BLOD]

mold-wyrm

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Hana Videen

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

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Hana Videen

fearh, m.n: a little pig, a farrow, litter. [FÆ-arh]

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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

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Hana Videen

cicen, n.n: a chicken, chick. (CHIH-chen / ˈtʃɪ-tʃɛn)

Tacuinum sanitatis. Italy, c. 1390. Vienna Austrian National Library, Cod. Vindob. P. 2644, fol. 65r. [brandenburg1260.de]

cū-bȳre

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Hana Videen

cū-bȳre, m.n: a cow-byre, cow-shed. (KOO-BUE-ruh / ˈkuː-ˌbyː-rə)

heoru-swealwe

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Hana Videen

heoru-swealwe, f.n: falcon, hawk. (HEH-or-uh-SWEH-all-wuh / ˈhɛɔ-rʌ-ˌswɛal-wə)

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]

hwæl-weg

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Hana Videen

hwæl-weg, m.n: the path of the whale, the ocean. (H’WAEL-WAY / ˈhwæl-ˌwɛj)

0901 hwaelweg — Bestiary from northern France, 13th century. British Library, Sloane MS 3544, f. 42v. [bl.uk]

For more on medieval whales, see my other blog, Dēor-hord, a medieval and modern bestiary!

scrīc

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Hana Videen

scrīc, n: a kind of thrush, screech, fieldfare, strike. (SHREECH / ˈʃriːtʃ)

crabba

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Hana Videen

crabba, m.n: a crab, crayfish; a sign of the zodiac, cancer. (KRA-ba / ˈkra-ba)

0803 crabba — The zodiac sign Cancer, from a 15th-century Arabic manuscript known as Kitab al-bulhan. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 133, f. 7r. [bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk]