Muir’s Historical Atlas

It is many years since I have looked in this book. It starts with a map dated c450 B.C. and the last is dated 1962.

The World according to Herodotus in 450 B.C. has only six names on it. Europa, Scythia, Asia, Libya, Arabia and India.

Looking through for a “certain name” I’ve found some astonishing things.

This region is not shown in it’s entirety until 200 A.D. where it is unnamed. By 526 A.D. the maps just say Slavonic People. In 900 A.D. it is split between the Russian Federation and the Khazar Empire. In 1100 it’s called Kingdom of Rus. In 1250 it’s the Khanate of The Golden Horde.

Only in 1490 is the word Tartary used. Also 1529/1588-1650. Then afterwards it’s The Russian Empire, USSR, Soviet Union etc!

My copy is a 9th edition. I wonder how many changes were made from the 1st edition !

The Ravens of Dinefwr Chronicles

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.