Merbishop
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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
- Bispo marinho
- Norwegian
- Havbiskop (literal translation; not known in Norwegian mythology)
- Dutch
- Zeebischop
- German
- Fischbischof
- French
- Évêque marin
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- Creole