09-03-2016, 02:35 AM
(09-03-2016, 01:33 AM)Oocephalus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP:
I personally don't see a boar in that root, but Ellie V. also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., so maybe it's just me. I do think it's possible.
I doubt if I would have seen a boar in it before I had looked at a lot of medieval drawings of animals, but if you assume the longer-than-normal nose on the animal shape is part of the root on either side of the animal, then it does look like some of the boars drawn at that time. Some strongly emphasize the nose.
I don't know if I screensnapped it, or left myself a note about the MS ID, but I chuckled my way through about 10 pages of a bestiary once where every animal looked like a dog and was labeled boar, fox, deer, etc. The illustrator could draw a dog fairly well and was obviously trying to draw other animals but couldn't seem to break out of dog-mode. And yet, you could kind of make out what he was trying to draw some of the time (without looking at the label first) based on medieval conventions in general.