Mermonk

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A mermonk (François Desprez, Paris, 1562). Rijskmuseum.

A mermonk (Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439).

mermonk • Nordic creature that is mentioned by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his chapter on merpeople. Apparently, a mermonk was captured by herring fishers in the Baltic Sea near Copenhagen. Gesner also mentions a merbishop that was captured near Poland in 1531.

English

Mermonk

Portuguese

Monge marinho

Norwegian

Havmunk (literal translation; not known in Norwegian mythology)

Dutch

Zeemonnik (literal translation; not known in Dutch mythology)

German

Seemönch

French

Moine de mer; Poisson-moine

Spanish

Monje marino (literal translation)

Catalan

Monjo marí (literal translation)

Italian

Pesce monaco; Monaco marino (literal translation)

Greek

Μοναχός της θάλασσας