The sea monk (monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It was described as a 'fish' that outwardly resembled a human monk in his habit. Rondelet's sea monk (1554) called it 'the fish with the habit of a monk (piscis monachi habitu), he classed it as a merman (homo maris). | |
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