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    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir...
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  • attributed to Galba; especially place-names and his familiarity with John Mandeville's Travels. However, the philologist, Joan Coromines, suggests that Galba's...
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    Romaunt of the Rose: "With swerd, or sparth (axe) or gysarme" and Mandeville's Travels: "with swerds drawen and gysarmez and axes") and the use in the epic...
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    a primary source for the account of Mandeville's Travels. Many of the incredible reports about Asia in Mandeville have proven to be versions of Odoric's...
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    Spaniards in Haiti identified with Palombe, a legendary place where John Mandeville's Travels said there was a fountain of youth. The Bahamas is one of only two...
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    "Brittonic, British" or "Breton". The English texts of the popular work Mandeville's Travels mention Great Britain in the context of the invention of the True...
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    in John de Mandeville's fourteenth-century Travels. Ipotanes appear in modern works of the fantasy genre. In his 1356 travelogue, The Travels of Sir John...
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    Punalur, Paravur, and Karunagapally. Kollam appeared as Palombe in Mandeville's Travels, where he claimed it contained a Fountain of Youth. In 825 CE, the...
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    London: Hakluyt Society. Letts, Malcolm (ed. and trans.) (1953). Mandeville's Travels: Texts and Translations, 2 vols. Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., 101-2...
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    Queens' College, Cambridge (BA, 1962), and received his PhD (entitled "Mandeville's travels: a study of the book and its importance in England, 1356–1750")....
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