Author: dist (213.85.32.---)
Date: 02-11-04 13:26
cub
2. a. By extension: The young of the bear and of other wild beasts; also of the whale.
For the young of the bear, lion, etc. the earlier word was whelp, as in all versions of the Bible from Wyclif to 1611.
1596 SHAKES. Merch. V. II. i. 29 Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare.
1683 BURNET tr. More's Utopia (1684) 13 The old Crow loves his Young, and the Ape his Cubs.
a1687 WALLER (J.), Two mighty whales..One as a mountain vast, and with her came A cub.
1774 GOLDSM. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 334 The lion, or tyger, have seldom above two cubs at a litter
Итак, понятие cub - детеныш медведя или другой дикой бестии - начинает встречаться у англичан как раз после знакомства с бестиарием в первой половине 16 века.
Значит, он тем более никак не мог быть написан в Англии 12 веке!

The horseman has stolen a cub and has been pursued by the tiger. The thief can stop the tiger by a trick: he throws down a glass sphere and the tiger, seeing its own reflection, stops to nurse the sphere like a cub. She ends by losing both her revenge and her child.
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