The Psalter World Map, created in the 1260s, is considered to be one of the great Medieval world maps. It's unusual by today's standards for many reasons: the fact that east, not north, is at the top; the forested sun and moon; the dragons holding the globe up at the bottom. But there is one image in the map above that is stranger than the others.
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