Sunday

The wyvern...


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A wyvern is a legendary winged reptilian creature
with a dragon's head, wings and often two legs or
sometimes none, and a barbed tail. There exists a
purely sea-dwelling variant, termed the Sea-Wyvern
which has a fish tail in place of a barbed dragon's tail
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Wyverns are mentioned in Dante Alighieri's
Inferno
(Canto XVII) as the component
body for the poem's Geryon


Wyvern speared by angels,
Liber Floridus, 1448
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A wyvern fighting with a wolf.
Relief, Trento Cathedral, Italy
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dude, the wyvern is what we know as pterodactyl.