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 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
A Viking carved bone tool with a beast head, from York, 10thC: http://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/1364/anglo-saxon-objects-anglo-saxon …pic.twitter.com/EKvUfx814h
?9thC silver strap end with a frowning, snarling beast, Trewhiddle style, found Oxfordshire https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/753697 …pic.twitter.com/IZwiCWODnr
Brings to mind this rather gorgeous+enigmatic 9thC Anglo-Saxon animal head, found nr York :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/512350 …pic.twitter.com/V6xWCw9B82
@caitlinrgreen Were the runes an owners name?
@nocylad runes read: s b e / r æ d h t 3 b c a i / e / r h / a d / æ b s... Not satisfactorily interpreted, possibly amuletic?
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