What word links a walrus and a telecommunications pioneer?
Walrus Greenland (walruses were by now extinct in Iceland and Norway, while the word evolved on in Greenland). Several place names in Iceland, Greenland and Norway may originate from walrus sites: Hvalfjord, Hvallatrar and Hvalsnes to name some, all being typical walrus breeding grounds. The archaic English word for walrus—"morse"—is widely thought to have come from the Slavic languages, which in turn borrowed it from Finno-Ugric languages. Compare морж ("morž") in Russian, "mursu" in Finnish, "morša" in Northern Saami, and "morse" in French. Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the "Carta Marina" in 1539, first referred to the walrus as
Head of a Walrus as in "represented here". The original is in the British Museum, London. The "AD" monograph and dating are later additions by another artist. Head of a Walrus Head of a Walrus (German: Kopf eines Walrosses) is a 1521 pen drawing and watercolour by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. At the time the walrus' main European population was around Scandinavia, and they were exotic to inland Europeans. As such the work reflects Dürer fascination with what he perceived as unusual animals, with similarly intentioned works including depictions of lions and rhinoceros. The drawing created as part of a larger series of