Camels also present in L10thC Poland+Germany, w/ Mieszko I of Poland giving one as a gift to Otto III in 980s:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Db9Z_BagLw8C&lpg=PA25&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Henry I of England in the E12thC also kept camels & a porcupine at Woodstock, Oxfordshire! https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uabPSAAACAAJ …pic.twitter.com/SgJiWDHSiq
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Otto I of Germany also had camels, prob via a mid-10thC delegation of 'Saracens' :) https://www.academia.edu/8482748/Cosmopolitan_Claims_Islamicate_Spolia_during_the_Reign_of_King_Henry_II_1002_24_in_Medieval_History_Journal_15_2_2012_S._299-318 …pic.twitter.com/QkWJSBaMCe
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