Further Thoughts on the Inventio Fortunata with Thanks to Readers December 19, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
The Inventio Fortunata (the Happy Discovery) is a text that we’ve already looked at twice on this blog. A first post described its extraordinary survival in a burnt copy of a copy of a copy in the wrong language. A second post alleged that the IF detailed an English trip to Arctic Canada in 1360. […]
King Arthur’s Last Men: Stranded in the Arctic North? December 15, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
*** Sorry I’m an idiot, I accidentally published two posts yesterday, one was left and one was withdrawn: this was the second that should have come out today** The Inventio Fortunata is a lost English text describing Arctic exploration that survives only in an emended form in a copy of a copy of a copy. […]
