The cog, Herning, a cargo tramp working out of Hadsund at the end of Mariager Fjord in Jutland, fares north to Finland, east to Wendland and west to Iceland.
As an abstract, auditory, non-visual thinker, I find geography, especially Northern European geography with all those peninsulas, very confusing so I am trying to pin things down here. In Poul Anderson's works, we must cope not only with fantastic realms and other planets but also with a lot of real world geography like a trip through Denmark in The Corridors Of Time. We can learn a lot by reading Anderson and then following up his many historical and geographical references.
Here, it is nearly time to eat, then attend meditation group.
4 comments:
I find remembering maps easy... mind you, I can get lost easily, too.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree with Stirling, we have maps to help us.
Ad astra! Sean
I've spent a lot of time in my life looking at maps, so I knew where some of those were, but I had to look up Hadsund/Mariager Fjord to see where in Jutland they are, and Wendland to find where in the world it is. Going to Finland and Wendland could be one trip from Hadsund into the Baltic, but it would make sense to go home to Hadsund before travelling into the open Atlantic to Iceland.
Kaor, Jim!
Long ago, as a boy, I was fairly good at drawing maps from memory. Only in broad outline, mind you, stuff like recognizably drawing the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean Sea.
Ad astra! Sean
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