Tuesday, December 21, 2010

BEACHCOMBER ON ARABIAN UNICORNS

http://beachcombing.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/return-to-the-arabian-unicorn/

This really is one of my favourite blogs!

Beachcombing – three long moons ago – ran an article on a European sighting of two unicorns at Mecca (of all places) in the sixteenth century. Given his bewilderment at the time he feels obliged to add this fascinating fragment that he recently stumbled upon...

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1 comment:

  1. The Unicorns were not in Mecca and would I doubt have been seen there by a European as its off limits for none Muslims... However this account seems very similar to the classic account of a Unicorn type creature by Ibn Fadlan which for some is evidence of late existence of the Elasmotherium

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