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[[File:ConradiGesnerimIVGess-439 Seabishop.jpg|thumb|right|frame| A merbishop (Conrad Gesner, 1604: ''Historiae animalium'', p. 439).]]
[[File:ConradiGesnerimIVGess-439 Seabishop.jpg|thumb|right|frame| A merbishop (Conrad Gesner, 1604: ''Historiae animalium'', p. 439).]]
'''merbishop''' • Antropomorph fish  that is mentioned by Cornelius Aurelius in 1517 <ref>Cornelius Aurelius, 1517. Die cronycke van Hollandt Zeelandt ende Vrieslant. Leiden, Jan Seversz., p. 275. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek: KW 1084 A 6.</ref> and picked up again by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his chapter on merpeople<ref>Conrad Gesner, 1604: ''Historiae animalium'', p. 439.</ref>. Apparently, a merbishop was captured near Poland in 1431. Next to merbishops, Gesner also mentions [[Mermonk| mermonks]] living in the Baltic Sea.
'''''merbishop''''' • Antropomorph fish  that is mentioned by Cornelius Aurelius in 1517 <ref>Cornelius Aurelius, 1517. Die cronycke van Hollandt Zeelandt ende Vrieslant. Leiden, Jan Seversz., p. 275. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek: KW 1084 A 6.</ref> and picked up again by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his chapter on merpeople<ref>Conrad Gesner, 1604: ''Historiae animalium'', p. 439.</ref>. Apparently, a merbishop was captured near Poland in 1431. Next to merbishops, Gesner also mentions [[Mermonk| mermonks]] living in the Baltic Sea.
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A merbishop (Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439).

merbishop • Antropomorph fish that is mentioned by Cornelius Aurelius in 1517 [1] and picked up again by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his chapter on merpeople[2]. Apparently, a merbishop was captured near Poland in 1431. Next to merbishops, Gesner also mentions mermonks living in the Baltic Sea.


English
Merbishop
Portuguese

Norwegian
Havbiskop (literal translation; not known in Norwegian mythology)
Dutch
Zeebischop
German
Fischbischof
French
Évêque marin
Spanish

Italian

Greek

Creole

References

  1. Cornelius Aurelius, 1517. Die cronycke van Hollandt Zeelandt ende Vrieslant. Leiden, Jan Seversz., p. 275. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek: KW 1084 A 6.
  2. Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439.