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  1. Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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  2. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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  3. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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  4. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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  5. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  6. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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  7. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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  8. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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  9. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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  10. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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  11. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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  12. It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡

    "As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
    to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
    [...]
    After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comrades’ heads with the drained blood and promptly spread the sails of their ships to the winds, thinking to placate them."
    Dudo of St Quentin

    🏛️ Thor the Wind-Raiser, whalebone idol, Lund, Skåne, #Sweden

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history

  13. #Exorcism. Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir Histoire (Speculum Historiale), Paris c. 1332-1335. BnF, Arsenal Ms-5080, fol. 176r.
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  14. It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡

    "Then did Thrym say,
    Thurses' ruler:
    'To gain the bride,
    bear in the hammer.
    Lay now Miolnir
    in the maiden's lap.
    Make us husband and wife
    by the hand of Var.'"
    Þrymskviða 30, translation by Frank E. Bryant, 1903

    🏛️ Bronze figurine identified as #Thor from Eyrarland, Iceland, discovered in 1815 CE

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history