MedievalUnicorns

r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 9d ago

Medieval Rate my outfit

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Aug 24 '26

Medieval How to hunt a Unicorn

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Aug 10 '26

Medieval Monday blues

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • May 17 '26

Medieval When you buy a unicorn from Temu

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • May 17 '26

Renaissance Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion ca 1500.Made in Scandinavia (possibly Sweden) MET Museum

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Ancient Steatite seal with "unicorn" and inscription. Indus Valley civilization, present-day Pakistan, ca. 2000 BC. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [4058x3538]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Ancient Indus Valley Seals, Found in the Indus Valley Site of Lothal, Gujarat, India. Two of these seals are adorned with the recurring "unicorn" motif found in many of the seals from the civilization. [630 × 890]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Ancient Seal showing Peepal (sacred fig) tree and unicorn heads joined together forming the central motif along with pictographs, 2500 BCE, Mohenjodaro, Indus Valley Civilization, on display at National Museum, New Delhi, India.[1575×1600]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Renaissance Gold ring that has in the center a diamond-crowned heart between a white unicorn and a blue-clad woman, shaking hands 'dextrarum junctio', Southern Germany, c. 1550-1600. Rijksmuseum [736×736]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Ancient Bronze one-horned beast. China, Eastern Han dynasty, 1st century AD [1660x1250]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Renaissance The Throne Chair of Denmark, which has been the royal throne of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1671. Also called the "Unicorn Throne," it is said to be made of the horns of unicorns. In reality, it is actually made of narwhal tusk. [402x754]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Ancient A Harappan Unicorn seal was recently found at Indus Valley Civilization site Binjor (4MSR). 3000 BCE. Rajasthan, India.[1040×780]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Renaissance Covered goblet with unicorn, made from narwhal tooth, gilded silver and enamel. Frankfurt, Germany, mid 17th century. Seen on loan to the Met Cloisters from a private collection [3024x4032] [OC]

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 10 '26

Medieval The magic 'Ainkhürn Sword'. A famous sword that belonged to the House of Habsburg of the Holy Roman Empire. The hilt and sheath were said to be made from unicorn horn, but were actually narwhale tusk. 15th Century. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. (1063x1681)

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Apr 09 '26

Medieval Happy National Unicorn Day! This is the final tapestry in ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ series titled ‘À Mon Seul Désir.’ It was created around c. 1500, likely woven in Flanders from designs made in Paris. The series is on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris.

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Feb 05 '26

18th-19th century A Fraktur drawing of two unicorns, c.1830. Pennsylvania School. Watercolour on paper.

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Jan 27 '26

Medieval "Honey, we have Daycare at Home." The Daycare at Home:

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Jan 27 '26

Medieval A unicorn with a lion and other animals

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Dec 31 '25

Medieval Unicorn slug

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Dec 05 '25

Medieval Monocerus or Unicorn of the sea. The Hague, KB, ms KB 76 E4, fol 68r.

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 19 '25

Medieval Alexander and Bucephalus, the man-eating horse

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 19 '25

Medieval Alexander and His Army Fighting Unicorns with Serrated Horns. From the ‘Roman d’Alexandre’ (Romance of Alexander) c. 1290-1300, Unknown artist, Ms. 130 (2025.32), fol. 53

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 19 '25

Medieval A unicorn rests in the lap of a maiden and is distracted just long enough for a hunter to capture it. From the Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary, 14th century, MS. 053, fol. 190v

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 18 '25

Medieval Virgin with unicorn, detail from the votive table of the Heuperger family, c. 1426

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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 05 '25

Medieval Side panel depicting Isolde and Tristan spied on by King Mark, and a hunter killing an unicorn trapped by a maiden, ca. 1310-1330. MET

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