Zitiron

A zitiron, or sea knight, is a mythological creature that has an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish.[1]

A zitiron as represented in an illuminated manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant's poem "Der Naturen Bloeme", c. 1350

References

Citations
  1. Tralau & Kristiansson (2012), p. 14

Bibliography
  • Tralau, Johan; Kristiansson, Magnus (2012), "Hobbes's Hidden Monster: Rediscovering the Frontispiece of Leviathon" (PDF) (Paper presented at The Politics of Images: History and Change panel, IPSA, Madrid, 11 July 2012), retrieved 5 September 2014CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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