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Learn more about the book inspired by this blog: The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary.

A book, “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary”, by Hana Videen, resting on a log with an orange leaf beside it. The cover background is white with a gold and green border with decorative gold squares. The title and author’s name are written inside an arched window shape, with a border of words around it: culfre, heafod swelce mona, healf-hundingas, æmette, igil, hind, dentes tyrannum, fenix, reord-berend, ungefrægelican deor, nædre, wulf and hwæl. The area surrounding the Old English word border has wood-cut style illustrations in green and gold, each in its own compartment but overlapping slightly: a wolf, a whale, a dove, a spiky lizard with big teeth, a dog-headed person holding a cross, a deer, a weird-looking rhino-like creature, a phoenix in a burning nest, a nun writing, a snake and a griffin. By the author’s name it says “Author of The Wordhord”, which Neil Gaiman described as “Marvellous”, and some ants crawl alongside it.
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