58 points by speckx 6 days ago | 10 comments
- This is a nice alternative link because it zooms into a few areas
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-...
- And here's a slightly higher resolution copy of the map:
- To anyone who is a fan of Lord Dunsany or Susanna Clarke and who wants to read the most recent iteration of scholarly fae fantasy, I recommend "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett.
- > Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.
- That's an amazing picture - sort of reminds me of the Carta marina by Olaus Magnus. [1]
Not going to lie, I did kind of chuckle a bit at the part labeled "The Water Babies".
The artist is Bernard Sleigh [2].
- Very cool, does anyone know if I can buy a high quality print somewhere?
- YNews hug of death, perhaps
- This map was created in 1917, so sadly it missed out on Lord Dunsany's explorations of Elfland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Elfland%27s_Daught...).
But... seven years separate Dunsany's novel from this map, and as everyone knows, seven is an important number in Fairyland! I declare a Fae conspiracy.
- well next year will be 70 years from Dunsany's death, so pretty much everything of his should be in the public domain then. maybe the map can be updated!
