Arthurian Bestiary: All Animals and Mythical Creatures
A complete list of all the animals, beasts, and mythical creatures found in the Arthurian legends featuring King Arthur.
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A complete list of all the animals, beasts, and mythical creatures found in the Arthurian legends featuring King Arthur.
Jormungandr, also known as the World Serpent and Midgard Serpent, is an important character in Norse mythology.
The Gashadokuro, a Japanese Yokai, appear in Japanese folklore as skeletal ghosts fifteen times the size of a normal person.
Error is one of the first monsters that we see in The Faerie Queene, and serves as a kind of prototype challenge to the Redcrosse knight.
Dragons are in a lot of medieval literature, but the one in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is particularly important. Find out why.
The Questing beast or otherwise known as Beast Glatisant, was a strange creature from the Arthurian lore. It was named because of the strange sound it makes from its stomach that could be likened to
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