conventional title Physiologus was because the author introduces his stories from natural history with the phrase: "the physiologus says", that is, "the...

leading to the commingling involve the treatment of sirens in the medieval Physiologus and bestiaries, both iconographically, as well as textually in translations...

Bern Physiologus (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Codex Bongarsianus 318) is a 9th-century illuminated copy of the Latin translation of the Physiologus. It was...

The Icelandic Physiologus is a translation into Old Icelandic of a Latin translation of the 2nd-century Greek Physiologus. It survives in fragmentary...

According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale...

from a single creature called the aspidochelone in the Physiologus. The Icelandic Physiologus contains two illustrations of the aspidochelone, one with...

déndron peridéxion) or perindens is a mythological tree discussed in the Physiologus, an early Greek-language Christian didactic text and compendium, and...

fox-sized ants that dug up gold in sandy areas. Some versions of the Physiologus said they came from Ethiopia, while Herodotus claimed they were located...

318 – Physiologus Bernensis". e-codices. Retrieved 11 September 2022., facsimile, fol. 13v Woodruff, Helen (September 1930). "The Physiologus of Bern:...

('sea-reek') and lyngbakr ('heather-back'). The aspidochelone of the Physiologus is identified as the potential source for the hafgufa lore. Although...