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Illustration of a large four legged, hairy animal with a fat body, elephant like feet, and a wide muscly tail. Its head is large and covered in hairy barbs, it has a snout and long mouth with sharp teeth and tusks protruding up from the lower jaw. The animal is climbing some rocks while men in a rowing boat pull at it with a rope fixed to a hook in the animals flesh.

Tusk carved into a sculpture of a walrus.

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

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

Illustration of a tree overhanging water. Large egg like fruits grow from the tree. The heads of geese protrude from some. A few fruits have fallen in the water, opening and allowing geese to emerge.

Book with dense Latin text. The section is titled De Scotia (Scotland). Illustrations depict a small town with farmland, and barnacle geese.

Two illustrations of a sea serpent. Above, the serpent swims just above the water level, six humps of its body and its head are visible. The head is roughly the size of a rowing boat with two men facing it. Below, the serpent rears out of the water beside a sailing ship which it is almost as tall as. It spits water in the air.

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

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.

Illustration of a volcano spewing fire, smoke and rocks.
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