Vasa Mortis. Bird with four heads, middle like a whale, feathers and feet of a griffin

Motif

Vasa Mortis. Bird with four heads, middle like a whale, feathers and feet of a griffin.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Bird-beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B46

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Old English: Solomon and Saturnus (Grein-Wülcker) III (2) 58–82, lines 262ff.

Within the index

Filed under Bird-beasts.

Filed beside it

Bird-horse Griffin. Half lion, half eagle Winged bull Bird-bear Air-going elephant Winged camel Flying crustacean. (Cf. B62, B94.)Bird-beasts – miscellaneous

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