Hellusier
According to Tacitus ' " Germania ", Hellusier and Oxionen were mixed peoples of humans and animals who lived far north of the then known world, beyond the Finns .
- The rest is already shrouded in legend: That the Hellusians and Oxionen have faces and expressions of people, and bodies and limbs of animals: I will leave that undecided as unexplored. (Tacitus, Germania 46)
The idea of the existence of such beings on the edge of the known world persisted into the Middle Ages. Modern interpretations assume that the beings described are probably seals and sea lions in the North Sea , which at least in the head area show a certain resemblance to humans.
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- ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity . Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-016423-7 ( google.de [accessed on July 24, 2018]).