Composite image showing three illustrations of the narwhal and horn, from Ole Worm's Museum Wormianum.

Featured on PDR in the essay Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn

When the existence of unicorns, and the curative powers of the horns ascribed to them, began to be questioned, one Danish physician pushed back through curious means — by reframing the unicorn as an aquatic creature of the northern seas. Natalie Lawrence on a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy.

The Narwhal and Horn

Date

1655

From

Museum Wormianum


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Public Domain Worldwide

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