ティンニーン†Edward Laneが翻訳した、Al-QazwiniによるTinninの紹介。 An aquatic animal, great in make, terrible in appearance, long and broad in the body, large in the head, having very glistening eyes, wile mouth and inside, and many teeth: it swallows many animals; the animals of the land and of the sea fear it; and when it moves, the sea becomes agitated witl waves by reason of its great strength: in its first state, it is a malignant serpent, that eats whvat it sees of the beasts of the land; and nwhen its mischief becomnes great, God sends an angel that carries it atay, and throws it to Yajooj and Majooj: it is related of one that was seen to fall, that it was found to be about two leagues in length, of a colour like that of the leopard, with scales like those of a fish, two great fins in form liltke those of a fish, a head like a great hill, resembling the head of a man, two long and great ears, and two round eyes; and from its neck branched forth six other necks, every one of them nearly twenty cubits long, and every one of them having c head like that of the serpent. Edward William Lane, 1863, An Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams and Norgate, bk. 1, pt. 1 p. 318. |
