Fabulous Account of the Lion

Jarltzberg is right in supposing that this is given by Philippe de Thaun. It is, however, of older date. Turner (*History of England during the Middle Ages*, vol. iv. chap. iv. p. 209.) gives part of a Latin version of it from the "Physiologus" of a certain Theobald. The "Physiologus," which is in substance the same as the "Bestiary" of Philippe de Thaun, occurs, according to Mr. Turner's account of it, in MSS. of the eighth or ninth century. Anglo-Saxon versions of "The Whale and the Panther" are in the *Codex Exoniensis*. In the works of Hildebert, who died Abp. of Tours 1134, a poem called…