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A mermonk (François Desprez, Paris, 1562). Rijskmuseum.
mermonk • Nordic creature that is mentioned by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his chapter on merpeople[1]. 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
References
- ↑ Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439.
