Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Ireland: Another Country Doing Lions Poorly

Straight out of Trinity College Dublin, in the Book of Kells exhibit:


The great Checkerboard Lion of Ireland! This noble creature can be identified by the way he pranced on his tiptoes through the Irish countryside, displaying the perfect ringlets of the mane that stretches, inexplicably, all the way down to his tail.


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