Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Medievalism

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Curator's description: "In 1577, at the age of 63, Adriaen Coenensz from Scheveningen, a Dutch fishing port, started his Vis booc. Over a period of three years he collected all kind of information about the sea, the coasts, and coastal waters,…

Caesar Otway imagines the avaricious monks of Station Island in the Middle Ages

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded on the nearby Saint’s Island (formerly St. Dabheog's Island) in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot (see…

Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes

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A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories

O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle
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