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    ("Flying Deer") – galleon, 20 guns, 300t under the command of Ellert Appelman Meerweib (Panna Wodna) ("Sea Virgo") – 12 guns, 160t under the command of Adolf...
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    and Physiologus. The Middle High German cognate merminne, (mod. German "meerweib"), "mermaid", is attested in epics, and the one in Rabenschlacht is a great-grandmother;...
    211 KB (20,047 words) - 22:57, 26 April 2024
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    Polish–Lithuanian flagship Ritter Sankt Georg, supported by the Panna Wodna (Meerweib), engaged the Swedish flagship Tigern. More Polish–Lithuanian ships came...
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    certain mermaids or water sprites (Middle High German: merwîp; mod. Ger.: Meerweib) bathing themselves in the waters of the Danube. Hagen steals their clothes...
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    18 Papegoja 12 3 fireships The fireships were named Meerman, Caritas, Meerweib, Bona, Jungru, St Mikael and 1 other. 4 had previously been used as horse...
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