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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you mean south is at the top :)
Argh! Yes, you're right! :)
What an absolutely brilliant find. Your work is so inspiring #thankyou @caitlinrgreen
Very kind of you to say, thank you :)
You're welcome!
Great fine thanks, one point how is it a map of “England” with Scotland in it?
Because all the information and place-names relate to England; Scotland is simply appended to it.
In that case they got things pretty wrong. If space mattered to them as it does to us...
Yet they got Lincoln's position spot on; suspect reflects a mix of direct knowledge of specific areas plus prior models etc such as the Roman map thought to underlying the Anglo-Saxon map of Britain posted a bit back?
Glad they got Lincoln right. I suspect included in the mashup were travellers' tales from a place as exotic as those Alfred's informants produced.
Most interesting..how did the placenames match up?
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