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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[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

Creole

References

  1. Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439.