Across
- 3. Patron saint of England
- 6. manuscript handwritten book decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures.
- 9. a medieval encyclopedia that categorized different animals with pictures and allegories
- 11. could be based on facts or historical figures but are now "larger than life"
- 12. Fill in the blank. This famous phrase, written on Roman and medieval maps, originally read "HERE BE ___" but now is misbelieved to have said "Hic Sunt Dracones."
Down
- 1. Involve fantastical creatures that later became morality stories for children with dark endings
- 2. A river-living reptile that is often mistaken for a dragon in medieval bestiaries.
- 4. According to Pliny the Elder, these were the natural enemy of elephants.
- 5. a story that is used to represent a meaning
- 6. when someone or something takes on another form
- 7. A bearer of bad news and a sign of coming destruction.
- 8. stories of a culture that are used to explain supernatural phenomena or answer life's big questions
- 10. part of a bird's skeleton attached to the chest that allows it to fly