medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Sara Ellis asked:
>Apologies for this perhaps ignorant question - but what exactly is a
>"barnacle goose"? ... Could anyone suggest a link to a site with a
>picture or photo? >>
http://www.arthurgrosset.com/europebirds/barnaclegoose.html
and their ostensible source, the goose barnacle:
http://www-ops.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm/emerging/goosebarnacle/biology.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/423.shtml
There's an interesting discussion of a passage devoted to the species
in John Gerard's _Herball_ of 1597 here:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/hbll/friends/lectures/texts/1993.html
The section begins with "The value of Gerardâs [sic] work" and is
about a third of the way down the page.
Those particularly interested in the arthropod will also find a good
discussion of it in _Between Pacific Tides_ by Ricketts [[1]],
Calvin, and Hedgpeth, section 160, with a reproduction of the woodcut
from Gerard.
John
[[1]] "Doc" of John Steinbeck's _Cannery Row_.
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