Quinotaur
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- mythical hybrid
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- male
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- Merovech
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- Chronicle of Fredegar
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- Quinotaur
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- Frankish mythology
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thumb|253x253px|Two modern imaginings of the Quinotaur
The Quinotaur () is a mythical sea creature mentioned in the 7th century Frankish Chronicle of Fredegar. Referred to as "the beast of Neptune which resembles a Quinotaur", it was held to have fathered Meroveus by attacking the wife of the Frankish king Chlodio and thus to have sired the line of Merovingian kings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quinotaur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.