NR - Principality name

[Timothy Adams]

must be nice to have a huge library to play in.

=|   *sigh*

>OED.
>
>" 1. A fabulous animal usually represented as having the head and wings of
>an eagle and the body and hind quarters of a lion.
>   By the Greeks they were believed to inhabit Scythia, and to keep jealous 
>watch over the
>gold of that country.
>
>   13.. K. Alis. 496 The griffon of him was agast. c1386 CHAUCER Knt.'s T. 
>1275 Lik a
>grifphon looked he aboute [Lansd., Corpus & Hengw. MSS. griffon, Cambr. MS.
>grefoun]. c1400 MANDEVILLE (Roxb.) xxix. 132 In at land er many 
>griffouns..ai hafe e
>schappe of ane egle before, and behind e schappe of a lyoun..."
>
>I'll see if I can dig anything else up this morning.
>
>Marc/Diarmaid
>
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