A variant or corrupted form of 'salamander,' the mythical fire-dwelling creature; also sometimes used for the actual amphibian.
This appears to be a corrupted or dialectal variant of 'salamander,' showing phonetic drift and spelling variation common in medieval and early modern English texts.
Medieval scribes had no standardized spelling, so the same creature might be written as 'salamander,' 'almander,' or 'salamaundre' in different manuscripts—linguistic chaos that makes medieval texts super fun to decode!
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