by gerdesj on 11/8/22, 10:22 PM
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastsource422.htmSailors talk some complete twaddle at the best of times (I live close to HMS Heron) but blaming a six inch fish for delays in deployment or delivery takes some neck!
I love this resource. I'll be hunting down a beast that delays IT systems deployment. Some sort of insect is indicated ...
by zwieback on 11/8/22, 10:29 PM
by thamer on 11/9/22, 1:04 AM
Elephants often have
interesting shapes in medieval art. In some (most?) cases it seems like the artist was likely drawing from someone else's description of the animal since they had never seen one themselves (e.g. #14, #22, #34 and more in the gallery below).
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery77.htm
by iLoveOncall on 11/8/22, 11:27 PM
by jansan on 11/8/22, 10:17 PM
I was really into this during my teenage years, inspired by early role playing games. It was super hard to find information living in a small town with a small library before the internet existed. For some beasts I never found out if the beasts were based on myths, taken from fantasy fiction or simply invented by the authors.
Can east asian beasts be included? If so, I would suggest Qilin (Chinese) or Kirin (Japanese) (yes, the one on the beer label).
by triyambakam on 11/9/22, 12:32 AM
Lynne Kelly in her book "Memory Craft" shares that the medieval bestiaries were used as a mnemonic to aid in memorizing the religious texts.
by anfractuosity on 11/8/22, 10:25 PM
by SoftTalker on 11/8/22, 9:49 PM
Medieval Bestiary would be a good name for a band...
by zwieback on 11/8/22, 10:28 PM
The weird style - was it on purpose or were they really bad at drawing stuff?
by TaylorAlexander on 11/8/22, 11:27 PM
This page displays very poorly on my iPhone (12 Pro Max). I can’t zoom out to the full width of the page, which makes it immediately very frustrating to try to browse. It looks like a very cool site! Sadly not very useful to browse on mobile for me.