RE: Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?
R. Sale > 03-08-2023, 06:58 PM
The 'armadillo' identification has been a support for purported New World connections. There have been various other interpretations. Not only is there a certain degree of ambiguity in the VMs illustration, there are widespread, imaginative representations in many medieval manuscripts.
The 'critter' is not the key to the interpretation. The key is the nebuly line. What sort of creature is associated with a nebuly line as a cosmic boundary? There is also the matter of structure compared with other historical examples. And then, there is provenance.