[HN Gopher] Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhyme...
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       Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales
       etc.
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2026-01-27 16:44 UTC (5 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (collections.leventhalmap.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (collections.leventhalmap.org)
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | YNews hug of death, perhaps
        
       | fractallyte wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | bryanrasmussen wrote:
         | well next year will be 70 years from Dunsany's death, so pretty
         | much everything of his should be in the public domain then.
         | maybe the map can be updated!
        
       | vunderba wrote:
       | That's an amazing picture - sort of reminds me of the Carta
       | marina by Olaus Magnus. [1]
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       | Not going to lie, I did kind of chuckle a bit at the part labeled
       | _" The Water Babies"._
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       | The artist is Bernard Sleigh [2].
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       | [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
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       | [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sleigh
        
       | grimgrin wrote:
       | This is a nice alternative link because it zooms into a few areas
       | 
       | https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-...
        
       | j4cobgarby wrote:
       | Very cool, does anyone know if I can buy a high quality print
       | somewhere?
        
         | roywiggins wrote:
         | https://publicdomainreview.org/product/an-anciente-mappe-of-...
        
       | cgriswald wrote:
       | > Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.
        
       | bananaflag wrote:
       | To anyone who is a fan of Lord Dunsany or Susanna Clarke and who
       | wants to read the most recent iteration of scholarly fae fantasy,
       | I recommend "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather
       | Fawcett.
        
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