Morten St George Theory

[Linda]

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JKP the date on your sleeves map for the tapestry is still that of younger ones. The one that's most relevant for us fashion-wise is the Boar and Bear Hunt, which has been dated to the 1420's.

If I recall correctly, they adjusted the dated based specifically on fashion, which shows how strong of an indicator this is considered.

Thanks for pointing this out. I have found quite a few manuscripts (and other media) whose date estimates have shifted since I first recorded them in my files (or blogged about them). It's a challenge to keep up with a constantly moving target, but it has to be that way. I'll have to carve out some time to add a postscript.

On the castles, I made out for myself that the task is too daunting to find a match. So many of them have been destroyed, altered or renovated without proper records. And the VM drawing is so small. I'm not even sure if they mean a castle or a walled city..

That's basically where I ended up too. I found that so many had been completely rebuilt or completely destroyed (and never rebuilt), that it's nearly impossible to get enough data to come to any conclusions.

It may be that it is simply a generic castle, and has merlons only because that is what the artist has seen on castles in the culture he is referencing, similar to why the archer is wearing hunting clothes of the time, though it is not aligned with any particular sagittarius. It might just be pointing out the general region. To me its placement next to what seems to be Vesuvius, standing in for the Italian peninsula, puts it in what is today northwestern Italy, which then leads to France, ie the bridge. The dunes on the western edge of the bridge would be the edge of the Atlantic, the inner ones the Mediterranean shore south of where France joins to Italy.


The lower portion of France is reminiscent of the bridge. If you extend the metaphor to all of France, the outer edge would include Belgium and the Netherlands, as they were not considered countries in their own right at the time.


Here you can see the connection i am referencing between italy and france.


Here are nations as of 1400. France extends to encompas the area of the mouth of the Rhine.


The old dunes are where the mouth of the Rhine is, which corresponds to the river coming off what would be the northern part of this landmass on the bridge in the vms, which you can follow through various connections to get to northwestern Asia, as indicated.