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Εαλη Ealê Yale To roll back
pub-3887923691 Εαλαι Ealai Yale (ealên, eilô)

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Eale or Yale, Der Naturen Bloeme manuscript

c. 1350, National Library of the Netherlands

THE EALE (or Yale) was a strange bull-like animal native to the land of Aithiopia
(sub-Saharan Africa). It was equipped with a boar's tusks and a set of rotating
horns.
The creature's name was derived from the Greek word ealên, eilô, meaning "to
roll back," a reference to its moveable horns.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History 8. 73 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia

C1st A.D.) :
"Aethiopia produces . . . many monstrosities : . . . Among the same people is
also found the animal called the Eale (Yale), the size of a hippopotamus, with an
elephant’s tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the jaws of a boar and movable
horns more than a cubit in length which in a fight are erected alternately, and
presented to the attack or sloped backward in turn as policy directs."

Sources:
○ Pliny the Elder, Natural History - Latin Natural History C1st A.D.

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