The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
King Suerron ( - )
References in Documents:
them lesser, and one
ratably thicker than the former;
the other thinner, like a
white penny Loaf. The third the
thinnest, almost like a
Tansey.
a)
a)
um.Manuscript, entituled,
Danish-
Tongue,
as he saith is supposed, by Suerron;
which are
reckon'd up two and twenty kinds of Whales:
of all which he gives a brief account in his
which, the last
save one, is said to be sometimes almost an
hundred and thirty
Elns long. The last of all, liker a little
Island, than an
Animal.
b)
b)
Cent. 4
with some different Names, and
a different Account;
which he gives from a Manuscript History
of the Fishes of
herd of
with all their Figures. But how these
two accounts agree,
I see not. I would not think, That
in the King, and leave out the Shepherd, to make the story
better.
On the Snout of one of these Whales, called
Hoddunefur,
grow about five hundred
horny flat pieces, which Taylors
in a) a)
substance, with that we
call Whale-Bone, belonging to the
Finns. In Island they are so commonly taken,
That the
hard Bones are there used for the impaling of Houses
and
Gardens. (b)b)
Rom