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#1- Strange Fish

 Sea Monsters, Monstrous Fish, Whales, and all things fishy.

Sources we mention


Anonymous, A Wonderful Fish or Beast That Was Lately Killed, by James Stewart, as It Came of Its Own Accord to Him out of the Sea to the Shore, Where He Was Alone on Hors-Back at the Harbours Mouth of Dingle-Icoush. Dublin, 1673.


Anonymous, “The Whale” from the Exeter Book manuscript in the Exeter Cathedral Library.


Michael J. Curley: Physiologus. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. (A different online edition is here)


Hakluyt, The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the english nation. London, 1600.


Edward Topsell, A Historie of Foure Footed Beasts. London, 1658 (first edition was 1607).