Horse or Whale? Naming the Walrus in Northern Europe (ninth to mid-sixteenth century).

• Published in: Anthropozoologica
• Main Authors: Delliaux, Maxime, Gautier, Alban
• Other Authors: Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO), Unité de recherche sur l'histoire, les langues, les littératures et l'interculturel (HLLI), 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 2018
• Subjects: Middle Ages; Lexicography; Walrus; Scandinavia; monster; food; animal names; hvalr; ivory; horse-whale; Nordic countries; Pays nordiques; morse; baleine-cheval; zoonymes; ivoire; alimentation; lexicographie; monstres; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Baleine; Morse; Odobenus rosmarus; walrus*
• Online Access: https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02131715; https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02131715/document; https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02131715/file/Anthropozoologica-Morse.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a15

International audience One of the main features of the relation between humans and the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)) is terminological plurality. Our lexicographical approach specifies the meanings of words referring to the walrus in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages and into the...