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  • Collection: Imagined Norths

A book with illustrations of a sea serpent and a sailing ship. The text describes accounts of sea monsters the author has heard.

A horse like sea monster with flippers rears out of the sea, attacking a sailing ship with jets of water from tubes on its head.

A long straight tusk with contours twisting in a spiral toward the tip.

A map titled Islandia. It is of a mountainous island with volcanoes and fjords. Sea monsters populate the surrounding waters, and polar bears on ice floes surround the Northern shores.

A smoothed spherical grey stone with a depression on the top.

Animal closely resembling an elephant, with small tusks and no trunk.

Animal with a fat body tapering to a more slender tail and neck. The tail has flippers. It has two long limbs on the front with flippers. Its head is oddly hook shaped and it has two small tusks protruding from its upper jaw.

Animal with a fat hairy body, large head, four long limbs with clawed paws, and a wide fish like tail. It has a flat snout, bristly moustache, large tusks protruding from the upper jaw, and flat molars.

Animals immediately recognisable as a walrus and pup. The body parts are in correct proportion and orientation with front and tail flippers accurately illustrated. The tusks protrude from the upper jaw and it has a bristly moustache.

Beasts
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