NR - Principality name
Timothy Adams
toadams at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 13 07:11:12 PDT 2000
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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