A line of dancing camels from the 11thC Old English Hexateuch :) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html …pic.twitter.com/AScVMBs3sG
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A wonderful L8thC Anglo-Saxon beast's head w/ runes---knife/seax scabbard fitting, London: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?ILINK%7C34484,%7CassetId=34872&objectId=98159&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/tOlju21tx4
A wonderful 9thC gold Anglo-Saxon beast-head pendant, found Monkton (Isle of Thanet), Kent: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/582497 …pic.twitter.com/Lqc4vGnZke
A L8thC silver+gilded dragon's head w/ protruding rolled tongue! Found W.Ilsley, Berkshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/95117 …pic.twitter.com/AF2vkUJgZ5
@caitlinrgreen adding that I do not remember dragons in Egyptian myths are dragons European and Chinese?
@morangles That is not my area, but an interesting question! Have heard it suggested that dragons came along the steppes, so to speak?
@caitlinrgreen Do Indian legends include dragons? Navajos mention Gila monsters (dragon equivalent) and Quetzacoatls in South Americas
@morangles @caitlinrgreen to fast too many questions. The modern day western dragon was a Christian/Viking invention
@Kelleth1989 @caitlinrgreen I grant you Christians of the conversion early period have numerous saints dealing w/monstrous snakes but
Same passage in the Beowulf-manuscript is illustrated w/ "Two elephants, resembling camels"! http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f101v …pic.twitter.com/PIZLzSoTr6
A baby camel/brontosaurus tied to a tree, from Marvels of the East, Beowulf-manuscript: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f101r …pic.twitter.com/UlyzAzsO1F
Dog-like ants attack a camel in the Beowulf-manuscript, MS Cotton Vitellius A XV, f. 101v: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f101r …pic.twitter.com/S4QXaZM0Jq
@caitlinrgreen What is the relation of Camels with Beowulf?
@Archatgs They're from an Anglo-Saxon text of the Marvels of the East bound with Beowulf :)
@caitlinrgreen But what is the relation between A-Saxons & elephants? They are not British animals.
@Archatgs Well, not in this era! Once, though...But seriously, they're trying to illustrate the Marvels in the text but aren't clear on how!
This one at least has a trunk :)https://twitter.com/DamienKempf/status/701825133485432833 …
@EvansianI They figured it out in the end, pity they made it so sad though :/
@caitlinrgreen it's upset because it stood on a dragon and made it cry :(
@caitlinrgreen the inverse sabre-toothed tigerphant. They're extinct now. Died of embarrassment :)
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