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Rabbi [[Benjamin of Tudela]] reported a story reminiscent of the roc in which shipwrecked sailors escaped from a desert island by wrapping themselves in oxトゥデラのラビ・ベンヤミン<ref>ユダヤ人のラビ。イベリア半島北部のナバラ王国トゥデラに生まれ、1165年から1173年に地中海周辺地域、西アジア、アフリカ北部を訪れ、カスティーリャ王国で没した。1130頃-hides and letting 1173。</ref>は、砂漠の島で難破した船乗りが牛皮で身を包み、[[griffinグリフィン]]s carry them off as if they were cattle.に家畜のように運ばせて脱出したという、ロックを連想させる話を伝えている<ref>M. Komroff, ''Contemporaries of Marco Polo'' 1928:311f.</ref> 。
→西方への伝播
== 西方への伝播 ==
In the 13th century, [[Marco Polo]] (as quoted in [[David Attenborough|Attenborough]] (1961: 32)) stated <blockquote>It was for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of enormous size; so big in fact that its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high into the air and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces; having so killed him, the bird swoops down on him and eats him at leisure.</blockquote>
