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The book is written like a biology book, describing the habitat of the mythical creatures known as gnomes (Dutch: kabouter).In the book, Huygen and Poortvliet say they've spent at least twenty years observing them and call their study the "first work of consequence on the subject to be published since Wunderlich's bulky and dubious treatise De Hominibus Parvisimis appeared in 1580".
A literal translation into English of the earliest known book of fowling and fishing (1492). Written Originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492. Translated by Alfred Denison. [383] Beothius. Boethius, known as Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (c. 477 – 524), was a Roman senator and philosopher.
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"Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.
Gnomes, in their literary sense, belong to the dawn of literature, in their naiveté and their simplicity and moralizing. Many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded. The ancient Greek gnomes are not all solemn; some are voluptuous and some chivalrous.
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Articles relating to gnomes and their depictions. They are mythological creatures and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and widely adopted by authors including those of modern fantasy literature.