The walrus and the seal in northern seas during the Middle Ages: hunting, exploitation, trade. A text approach

• Published in: Anthropozoologica
• Main Author: Delliaux, Maxime
• Other Authors: Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Walrus; seal; hunting techniques; trade; zooarchaeology; Icelandic sagas; Ohthere’s account; Olaus Magnu; Morse; phoque; techniques de chasse; commerce; archéozoologie; sagas islandaises; récit Ohthere; Olaus Magnus; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; morse; walrus*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03343673; https://hal.science/hal-03343673/document; https://hal.science/hal-03343673/file/Le%20morse%20et%20le%20phoque%20dans%20les%20mers%20du%20Nord%20au%20Moyen%20%C3%82ge.%20Chasse,%20exploitation,%20commerce.%20Une%20approche%20par%20les%20textes.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5252/az2016n2a1

International audience The sources we have tend to prove that, during the Middle Ages, men fear the sea and the creatures living in it. The walrus, subject of a terminological ambiguity, is no exception to the rule. However, both the walrus and the seal are hunted, for hunters have a more realistic...