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Legendary islands of the Atlantic; a study in medieval geography

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« Reply #60 on: July 19, 2009, 03:29:01 am »

48 ST. BRENDAN'S ISLANDS

this coast is fifteen hundred miles long or fifteen hundred miles
distant. The map of Juan de la Cosa (isoo) 25 exhibits off the coast
of Brazil, and with an outline similar to Behaim's, "the island
which the Portuguese found." His date is too late to have influ-
enced Behaim, too early to have been prompted by Cabral's
accidental discovery of that very year. It is more likely that he
and Behaim both were acquainted with Bianco's work or that all
three drew from the same report of discovery.

LATER MAPS

From this time on tl^e^isjQeiiexjSore than one island for St.
Brendan, but it indulges in wide wanderings. Especially as the
attention of men was attracted to the more northern and western
waters, the map-makers shifted the island thither. Thus the map
of 1544, purporting to be the work of Sebastian Cabot and prob-
ably prepared more or less under his influence, 26 places the island
San Brandan not far from the scene of his father's explorations
and his own. It lies well out to sea in about the latitude of the
Straits of Belle Isle. The Ortelius map of I57O 27 (Fig. 10) repeats
the showing with no great amount of change. In short, the final
judgment of navigators and cartographers, before the island quite
vanished from the maps, made choice of the waste of the North
Atlantic as its most probable hiding place. Perhaps this west-
ward tendency in rather high latitudes may be partly responsible
for the hypotheses in recent times which have taken the explorer
quite across to interior North America on a missionary errand.
There is certainly nothing to prohibit any one from believing
them, if he can and if it pleases him.

CONCLUSION

In general review & RppparsUikglyJbhat jt. BrejidanJcLthe
sixth century wandered widely over the seas in quest of some

25 Kretschmer, atlas, PI. 7.
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