![]() He promises that if the fisherman will bring him the produce and then release him back into the water, he’ll return with lavish recompense. Joyfully, he hauls it up, only to find a merman, who begs for mercy-and for fresh fruit and vegetables, which are greatly lacking under the sea, he tells his captor. ![]() In “The Tale of ’Abd Allah of the Land and ’Abd Allah of the Sea” from the Arabian Nights, a poor fisherman fails day after day to catch anything but at last, in answer to his ever more desperate prayers, he feels something heavy land in his net. ![]() James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, MinneapolisĪ sea monster from the ‘Carta Marina,’ the map of Scandinavia and Iceland produced between 15 by Olaus Magnus, the archbishop of Uppsala, after his exile to Danzig ![]()
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