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Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

38 pointsby speckxlast Tuesday at 4:44 PM8 commentsview on HN

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grimgrintoday at 5:14 PM

This is a nice alternative link because it zooms into a few areas

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-...

cgriswaldtoday at 7:17 PM

> Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.

vunderbatoday at 4:29 PM

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].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sleigh

j4cobgarbytoday at 5:38 PM

Very cool, does anyone know if I can buy a high quality print somewhere?

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mistrial9today at 4:05 PM

YNews hug of death, perhaps

fractallytetoday at 4:20 PM

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.

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