The 650-year-old map shows two long lost islands.
A faded medieval map of Britain may reveal evidence of"long lost" islands detailed in Welsh mythology, a new study finds.
However, while some researchers think the Gough map ) may be solid evidence of these mythological islands, not everyone agrees with the team's findings. Lost land?According to Welsh mythology, the drowned land of Cantre'r Gwaelod had a ruler before the ocean washed it away. "Ptolemy provided a coordinate that suggests the mouth of the River Ystwyth lay further westward than it is today and, if it is correct, then one might expect the river to have flowed across a landscape that lay to the west of the present coastline," Haslett told Live Science in an email.
"The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned," Gildas wrote, describing the plight of those caught in the conflict. Haslett and Willis said this writing may record a time when a natural disaster, such as a storm surge or tsunami, worsened the erosion problem and caused a sizable amount of land to suddenly flood.
Catherine Delano-Smith, a senior research fellow at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, said the Gough map was a poor source for finding lost islands in Cardigan Bay."The Gough Map cannot be used to 'prove' the existence of 'lost' islands," Delano-Smith told Live Science in an email.
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