[MR] Map of Atlantia

[Glynis Gwynedd]

There is a Great Map that I saw on display at Crown Tourney.  It was
absolutely fabulous - every Barony, shire, canton, college,
stronghold, etc was on there - clearly demarcated, and included the
group's heraldries.

On 1/2/07, jbrmm266 at aol.com <jbrmm266 at aol.com> wrote:
>  How wonderful it would be, if someone would craft a period-style map like the ones Duke Merewald used to craft of the Known World.
>
> One interesting and entirely appropriate quirk of his maps is that they are oriented (perhaps I should say occidented) with west up. This is in accord with the idea that "life as we know it" started in the West. Early maps were oriented to the east (which is why we say "oriented") or toward Jerusalem.  the idea of having north be up is, I think, a feature of the acceptance of the concept of a spherical earth.
>
> Duke Merewald's maps were informative and they were also works of art. I have a couple.
>
> Your servant aye
> Donal
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathas at RedFoxDen.org
> To:
> Sent: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 8:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [MR] Map of Atlantia
>
>
> The best one that I know of is on the Spiaggia Leventina site, it is a
> little bit old (like Hawkwood is now a Barony not a Shire) but is a good
> starting point.
>
> http://www.spiaggia-levantina.org/map.html
>
> If there are others I'd love to know about them as well.
>
> Jonathas
>
>
> On 12/31/06, HORSTMAN,JAMES <jhorstman at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> >
> >     I am looking into doing a Letter of Marque scroll for
> > a A&S project and am trying to find a map of Atlantia
> > online.  Does anyone know of a good website or other
> > resource?
> >
> > Yours in Service,
> > Elphinstone
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