„Mermaid”. Dictionaries. Oxford. Архивирано из оригинала 15. 04. 2021. г. Приступљено 16. 4. 2012.
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Jøn, A. Asbjørn (1978), Dugongs and Mermaids, Selkies and Seals, стр. 95, „these 'marine beasts' have featured in folk tradition for many centuries now, and until relatively recently they have maintained a reasonably standard set of characteristics. Many folklorists and mythographers deem that the origin of the mythic mermaid is the dugong, posing a theory that mythicised tales have been constructed around early sightings of dugongs by sailors.”
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„Mermaid”. Dictionaries. Oxford. Архивирано из оригинала 15. 04. 2021. г. Приступљено 16. 4. 2012.
