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* '''whall:''' wall | * '''whall:''' wall | ||
Latest revision as of 10:31, 14 November 2020
- Walfisch: (German) whale
- whalefish: whale
- Annals of Dublin: record that in 1331 a school of whales (“turlehides”) was cast ashore
- whall: wall
- fisk: (Danish) fish
- fisk: a royal treasury
- St Brendan and the Whale: an episode in the Voyage of St Brendan the Abbot, in which the saint and his colleagues mistake a whale for an island in the ocean; they go "ashore", but when they light a fire on the animals's back it wakes up and they are forced to beat a hasty retreat! → St Brendan is named (Brénainn of Cluain-fearta) in the Annals of the Four Masters under the year 1132 A.D.
