Mermonk
From Marinelexicon
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.
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References
- ↑ Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 439.