NR - Birds in the Middle Ages

[Timothy Adams]

what book is this???
info info??  isbn ?

Timothy

>From: "Ulf Gunnarsson" <ulfie at MMCABLE.COM>
>Reply-To: northern at ansteorra.org
>To: <northern at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: NR - Birds in the Middle Ages
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:40:12 -0500
>
>The folks back then didn't have TV.  No Discovery Channel.  No PBS. And no
>History Channel, pardon the irony... Any knowledge of animals foreign to
>their local area came from travelers tales or from copies of bestiaries, a
>kind of animal encyclopedia.
>
>So I pulled out the 12th c. bestiary translation I have to check out those
>birds of Fionnagan's.  This is not the best example of a bestiary, but it
>had some good stuff in it.
>
>Vultures are slow flying, sharp-eyed carrion eaters that can foretell death
>and conceive without copulation.
>
>Aquila the Eagle is certainly the most noble of the birds, recognized for
>acuteness of sight.  When it grows old and its eyes film over, it flies up
>as high as the "circle" of the Sun, evaporating the fog from its eyes then
>plunging down again into a fountain to cool its singed wings and to arise
>again renewed.  The eagle will present its young to the Sun, holding it in
>its talon while flying, as a sort of rite of passage.
>
>Accipiter the Hawk is a thief and ravisher, "pillaging with cunning", but
>recognized for the great spirit it has for its size.  It also pushes its
>children out of the nest as soon as they are big enough, so that they will
>not be lazy and expect someone else to feed them.  Hawks will subject
>themselves to the hand of man, unlike many other birds.
>
>There is Bubo the Eagle Owl, Noctua the Little Owl, and Nycticorax the 
>Night
>Heron, all night-loving "owls".  My bestiary has little to say of them.
>
>That was fun.  You ought to read some of this stuff.  Especially the thing
>about the pelicans...
>
>Ulfie
>
>
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