Monstrous fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea : : whaling in the medieval North Atlantic / / Vicki Ellen Szabo.

Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, from marvelous to monstrous to mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Despite this, whales are conspicuous in their absence from most historical and archaeological dialogues on the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wealth of legal, literary and...

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Superior document:The Northern world, v. 35
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Northern world ; 35.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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