Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/zr0gIOcS6X
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Detail of Britain on 11thC map; Winchester+London marked & SW peninsula is exagerrated, as it is on al-Idrisi's mappic.twitter.com/vBeandW7a4
I wonder how Ireland wound up southeast of the Isle of Wight. That would be one heck of a tectonic shift!
On al-Idrisi's map? Don't forget, north is at bottom, so is showing it west of Cornwall :)
Oh! Well that's completely different! Ireland IS west of Cornwall, the last time I checked!
@DrJaninaRamirez Beautiful. #LoveMaps what date is this?
Mid-eleventh century AD :)
@DrJaninaRamirez As it turns out it looks disproportionatly large to me.
@DrJaninaRamirez Has the North (or should I say west) of Scotland been hit by a hydrogen bomb/ Tsunami 
@DrJaninaRamirez as soon as I saw this the Game of Thrones music started in my head
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And THEN they called it Great Britain.
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That's amazing! Right around to White Sea!
@Hippopeteamus back to the future hey
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