(25-04-2025, 11:29 AM)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I wonder if the twin-tail mermaid was the usual depiction?



Also, there is a proper Batman there! I love this MS.

I have a *vague* recollection about seeing another double tail mermaid in another unrelated VMS, wait I just found my notes.
   

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Is it really a woman with a fish tail?

That's a good one. Clearly, the exception proves the rule. It is a woman with a crown holding two fish. Likewise, the VMs must be examined with the same level of detail.

Mermaids are half fish - from the waist down. Not from the knees down - like the VMs. The VMs is not a mermaid, it is something else. She is the mythical Melusine in her less dragon-like, more mermaid-like, Luxembourgian representation. The various Valois rulers of the VMs C-14 era claimed her as an ancestor [Jean de Berry, Philip the Good].