Request: Bird Motif

[Blaine de Navarre]

I am looking for any and all representations of birds in any medium from Western/Northern Europe (Germanic/Nordic/Celtic) from the Late Migration to Early High Middle ages (maybe 900-1200 or so).

I have already found a number of them googling, but would love it if anyone has some links I have missed, or suggestions of good books to look up.

Thanks!

[Caillech]

Look in bestiaries. My favorite is the Aberdeen bestiary, whose exact date seems to be disputed but which seems to fall in your time period. You can find a complete index with links to illustrations here:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/contents.hti

And the rightmost column tells you what animal is illustrated. They include all sorts of birds: several doves, hawks, and eagles, turtle doves, pelicans, owls, magpies, ravens, ostriches, etc.

[InsaneIrish]

Here is a pic of a carved viking Raven. Can't remember where I found it or exactly what period it is from.

[Karen Larsdatter]

This is the kind of question where you're not going to get a short & sweet answer -- too open-ended, really. I'm just going to go through a few of my online sources, rather than really overwhelming you ...

Several at Bildindex, including:
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi02379d04a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fmlac9027_39a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fmlac1003109a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi03985e09a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi06459b06a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi04001b03a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/be00054f01a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi03996e14a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi04882g06a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/gr00332a03a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fr00349b05a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi03025g01a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi02379d02a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi00273c14a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/gr00244d02a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/be00095g08a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi05015c02a.jpg
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/nl00062f10a.jpg

And some more from KIKIRPA:
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=20053130
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=20024930
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=10128630
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=10059895
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=10147703
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... 0=10147703
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwo ... %250=42964

Several more at the Morgan Library, but I'm having difficulty getting to the images in their database at the moment.

[Blaine de Navarre]

Thanks!