However it wasn't until the 1250 in the Van den vas Reinaerde (Of Reynard the Fox) that the character who has come down to us through the ages was manifested completely.

Illustration by Jonas Lauströer from ‘Reynard the Fox’ Photo: Jonas Laustroer/Minedition So far as we know, the fox as a wicked and tricky character type originated 2,500 years ago with Aesop.

The mascot for Bevo was a playful character named Reynard the Fox. Reynard (Dutch: Reinaert, French: Renard, German: Reineke) is a popular character from allegorical Dutch, French, German and English ...

Reynard the Fox Renate Raecke, illus. by Jonas Lauströer. Minedition, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-6626-5006-2. Wily Reynard eludes justice, but his charms elude the reader in Raecke’s retold tales.

The wind began to blow hard from the north. Although he was tucked safely inside, Reynard the Fox shivered. "It will only get colder," his wife complained, "and we are out of food.

Reynard the Fox has returned — and it is here that Handler’s bagatelle ceases to be a bagatelle. “Something happens then,” the narrator, gone maddeningly vague, informs us.