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OED: gam

Perhaps < English regional gam, variant of game n. (see gam at game n. β. forms). Borrowing < a cognate of game n. in one of the modern Scandinavian languages is perhaps also possible (see forms at game n.), although there is no evidence…

Whale being flensed on the Faroe Islands

Described as "A little book, that more closely explains a map of the Nordic cold, beyond the Germanic sea located country, which presents its extremely peculiar, priorly known neither to Greeks or…

The Franks Casket is a small whalebone casket (9” l x 5” h x 7” d) carved with scenes taken from Christian lore and Roman and Germanic mythology. Running around the front panel is an alliterating runic inscription that most scholars describe as a…

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Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses (French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris 1447. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 241r. Alas, depictions of landlubbers only. But nice.

Another June day on the Vineyard, I walked into an antique shop in Menemsha and was immediately drawn to two carved whale’s teeth in the shape of penguins. I bought them.

According to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, antique teeth can be…

I beachcombed the Web, using the search term “Stranded Objects” and taking screen shots. Found poems.


PS. You might want to start with the last bit of the collection, which I intended to be the first, but Omeka prevailed.

It's out of my…

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