See Narvaez's "Los seys libros del Delphin", 1538 (or is it Narbaez?). It has a picture of a large dolphin cresting the waves with a vihuelist on its back (Arion, I believe), so not royalty in this case.
P On 21/06/07, Anthony Hind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Le 21 juin 07 =E0 17:47, Stewart McCoy a ecrit : > > > Dear Ed, > > > > Had he not died prematurely, Prince Henry would have become Henry > > IX, but > > his subjects were never going to be large marine mammals. :-) > Although, in French the word for the young pretender to the throne is > the dauphin and it also means a dolfin. > So in English le dauphin could well be loosely translated, as the > "Prince of Whales" > > Sorry, I couldn't resist > Anthony > > -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.silvius.co.uk http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
