Chronicles of the Strange & Mysterious by Arthur C Clarke & John Fairley & Simon Welfare

Author:Arthur C Clarke & John Fairley & Simon Welfare [Clarke, Arthur C & Fairley, John & Welfare, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 117859
Published: 2011-04-02T17:06:49+00:00

Mermaids

Recent research has solved one of the world’s other sea mysteries, the mermaid stories. Two Canadian scientists from Winnipeg, Drs Lehn and Schroeder, ascribed visions of mermaids to a precise optical illusion.

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[See Second Set Of Plates pl27 to pl38]

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They knew that sightings of mermaids could be traced back to medieval Norse texts, such as The King’s Mirror, which were otherwise very accurate in their descriptions of sea creatures. Only the mermaid and the kraken - the sea monster - are not recognized by today’s marine biologists. The author of The King’s Mirror gives a very vivid and precise description of a merman:

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