Found this, cant find any reference to it or who painted it or anything. Found it just on some website that had a conglomeration of Trojan War pictures. It is obviously medieval. That is about all that is known. I thought it was an interesting depiction of the Trojan Hors, then again most medieval era Trojan war depictions are interesting...
And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. -- Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
11th century Anglo-Saxon World Map
"Unsurprisingly, Britain itself is depicted in some detail. Great Britain, unusually by medieval standards, is shown as one island, albeit with an exaggerated Cornish promontory, and Mona, Ireland and the many Scottish islands are all indicated. The cartographer is slightly confused by Iceland, depicting it both by a version of its classical name 'Thule', north-west of Britain, and as 'Island', logically linked with Scandinavia."
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