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The Inventio Fortunata
Tales from the Northern Seas
Five Time-Lines in As Many Folios







"...In the midst of the four countries is a Whirlpool into which there empty these four Indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is 4 degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogether. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic stone. And is as high as the clouds, so the Priest said, who had received the astrolabe from this Minorite in exchange for a Testament. And the Minorite himself had heard that one can see all round it from the Sea, and that it is black and glistening. And nothing grows thereon, for there is not so much as a handful of soil on it."



Folio I: The Modern Prometheus

Folio II: The Kings Beyond the North Wind

Folio III: Hic Svnt Pygmaeos

Folio IV: Lands of our Forefathers

Folio V: The Inventio Fortunata​
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