The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 223 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

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On the beavers in the Teif, see a long account in Giraldus, It. Camb. ii. 3. Cp. Top. Hib. i. 26. He discusses the lawfulness of eating the beaver’s tail on fast-days, without coming to so decided a conclusion as when he rules (Top. Hib. i. 15) that the barnacle might not be eaten.

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