Published December 23, 2013 in Monsters and Maps | Full size is 611 × 325 pixels

Sea-Swine-56

In Olaus Magnus’s “Carta Marina” from 1539, a sea pig – which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like swine – dwelled in the North Sea.

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