[Sca-librarians] "wyvern"

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Thanks, everyone!
How very odd that this creature is not mentioned until the 17th century  
when, pictorially, it shows up waaaaay before that.

Nancy/Ingvild
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/4/2009 10:03:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
galefridus at optimum.net writes:

Per your  request.

-- Galefridus Peregrinus

wyvern

1. Her. A representation  of a chimerical animal imagined as a winged 
dragon with two feet like those of  an eagle, and a serpent-like, barbed tail.  
1610  _J.  GUILLIM_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g2.html#j-guillim)   Heraldry III. xxvi. 182 So doth the Wiuerne partake of a Fowle in the 
Wings and  Legs,..and doth resemble a Serpent in the Taile. 1682  J. GIBBON 
 Introd. ad Lat. Blazoniam 123  This Dragon hath but two Legs, and so is 
the same with our  Wiverne. 1716  S. KENT Gramm.  Her. s.v. Drake, He beareth 
Argent, a  Wivern, his Wings displaid and Tail nowed Gules. 1780  Encycl. 
Brit. (ed. 2) V. 3605/2 A Wivern volant Bendways Sable. Ibid., A Wyvern with a 
human Face. 1822  _GAGE_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g.html#gage)   Hengrave 38 A  squirrel..impaling a coat argent, on a chevron, between 
three wyvern's heads. 1864  _BOUTELL_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b3.html#boutell)   Her. Hist. & Pop. x. 68  Two Wyverns also support the 
shield of the Duke of Rutland. 1882  _CUSSANS_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-c4.html#cussans)   Her. (1893) 100 The wings of  the 
Dragon..and Wyvern are always represented as addorsed.
attrib. 1688  _HOLME_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-h3.html#holme)   Armoury  II. 214/1 He beareth Vert,..a Wivern-Wolf. Ibid., He beareth 
Azure, a Wivern-Serpent, Or.
b.  An image or figure of this monster.  
1863  Chr. Remembrancer Oct. 436 The  name of S. Romanus..is still dear to 
the boys and girls of Norman villages by  sundry processions of dragons, 
wyverns,..made of combustibles. 1864  _TENNYSON_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-t.html#tennyson)   Aylmer's F. 17 Sir Aylmer  Aylmer, that 
almighty man..Whose blazing wyvern weathercock'd the spire. Ibid. 516 The manorial 
lord..Burst his own wyvern on the seal, and  read..a letter from his child.
2.  Such a monster conceived as having a real existence.  
?a1700 in  Surtees Hist. Durham (1823) III. 243 Sir John Conyers, Knt., 
slew yt  monstrous, and poysonous vermine or wyverne, an aske or werme, wh[ich] 
 overthrew and devoured many people in fight. 1820  _SURTEES_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-s5.html#surtees)   Ibid. II. 172 [He] goes forth 
 to slay wolf, bear, or wivern. 1835  _BROWNING_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b4.html#browning)   Paracelsus  II. 454 Lakes which..Blaze 
like a wyvern flying round the sun. 1869  Tales fr. Blackwood XV. 74 As  if 
she had been a Wyvern or a Gorgon.


----- Original Message  -----
From: SNSpies at aol.com
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009 9:41  am
Subject: [Sca-librarians] "wyvern"
To:  sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org

> Hi, folks.
> 
>  Could some dear person with an OED to hand please tell me the 
>  definition of 
> "wyvern"? I would, as always, be deeply grateful.  Thanks.
> 
> Nancy / Ingvild
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