Dyrin is not an acronym: it is a word from the Scandinavian languages, the plural of dyr , which means "animal". The Dyrin project aims to create a corpus of texts relating to the knowledge of Arctic and subarctic fauna from Late Antiquity up to 1600. The main axis will be the transmission of zoological knowledge on this fauna which was still poorly known before explorations of the modern era. As a counterpoint to the research carried out on the history of exotic African and Asian fauna, work on the fauna of the Far North will make it possible to better understand a zoological exoticism coming from the cold, for animals even less well known than the fauna of the south, the ancient zoology having transmitted very little information about them. - [Author]

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