tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post578787431066288656..comments2023-09-07T18:57:41.344+01:00Comments on Early Modern Whale: Early Modern Proof Reading: a case studyDrRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-11180664985649332592007-10-09T08:27:00.000+01:002007-10-09T08:27:00.000+01:00I'm reading Richard Eden's 1574 translation of Seb...I'm reading Richard Eden's 1574 translation of Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographie" at present --- thought you might like to know that there are a couple of pages (sigs. D - Diii) which are given the heading, "Of Iseland" (yet another variant in spelling). The reference to Danish rule clinches the fact that the passage refers to Iceland rather than Ireland. PS. it's image 25/105 and following if you look it up in EEBO.EMRG adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18354707772226854651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-84654915329912978282007-09-02T09:20:00.000+01:002007-09-02T09:20:00.000+01:00"It could have been worse--Dr Roy Booth"That would..."<I>It could have been worse</I>--Dr Roy Booth"<BR/><BR/>That would make for a fine back-cover blurb, were the paperback not already in the shops.Adam Roberts Projecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10001572970456425902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-14739895926256331212007-08-31T20:21:00.000+01:002007-08-31T20:21:00.000+01:00Feel free! It has a real Trinitarian oddity to it,...Feel free! It has a real Trinitarian oddity to it, doesn't it, connoting one and three at once. I can't get onto Blogger to post at the moment. Bah!<BR/>Booth Junior read me extracts from your Silmarillion spoof all the way round Iceland. It could have been worse - the Silmarillion itself, for example.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-57538639388488291452007-08-29T10:20:00.000+01:002007-08-29T10:20:00.000+01:00Can I have 'Uno von Troil' for a story I'm writing...Can I have 'Uno von Troil' for a story I'm writing? <I>Most</I> excellent name ...Rachel Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09514816247989239714noreply@blogger.com