Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described...
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an island named Bacalaos, known to Europeans by that name since at least 1556, when it was drawn on the Gastaldi map as "Bacalaos". Brasil (mythical island)...
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Brazil (disambiguation) (redirect from Brasil (album))
End of an Era, 2021 "Brazil", by Kenny G from Paradise Brasil (mythical island), a phantom island featured in Irish myths Empire of Brazil (1822–1889),...
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Saint Brendan's Island, also known as Saint Brendan's Isle, is a phantom island or mythical island, supposedly situated in the North Atlantic somewhere...
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Rocabarraigh (category Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
Roca may come from the Goidelic language. Rockall Brasil (mythical island), a similar mythical island in Irish folklore MacIlleathain, Ruairidh. "Litir...
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Atlantis (category Phantom islands)
the straits into the Mediterranean. Mythology: Antillia Avalon Brasil (mythical island) Brittia Cantre'r Gwaelod Iram of the Pillars Lemuria (continent)...
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place (or found not to be an island, as with the Island of California). Some may have been purely mythical, such as the Isle of Demons near Newfoundland...
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Ranulph was stationed there. Brasil (mythical island) Brittia Lemuria (continent) Mayda Mu (lost continent) Sandy Island, New Caledonia Ys General: Doggerland...
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Great Ireland (category Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
L'Anse aux Meadows Greenland Newfoundland and Labrador Azores Hy-Brasil – mythical island to the west of Ireland. Barnes, 2001, p. 31. de Costa, B F (1880)...
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far as North America. Land of Maidens Saint Brendan's Island Great Ireland Brasil (mythical island) Avalon Thrall 1917. Dumville 1976. Wooding 2000b, Introduction...
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1958. The name Hy Brasil is associated the mythical Irish island of Brasil, also called Hy Brasil, which in Irish folk legend is an island that contains the...
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dates back to at least the late Irish pre-historic era. Boann Brasil (mythical island) Clodagh Danu Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill, Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh...
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List of mythological places (redirect from Mythical city)
between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island. Celliwig The earliest named location for the court of King Arthur. Brasil or Hy-Brasil A mythical island to the west...
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Admiralty maps showing a mythical Ascension Island at a location between Trindade and Brazil as late as 1808. Dry and barren, the island had little appeal for...
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Mag Mell (category Mythical utopias)
meaning 'delightful plain') is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld, a mythical realm achievable through death and/or glory. Unlike the underworld in some...
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Misty Island, an island off the southern coast of Sodor that is perpetually surrounded by mist, potentially inspired by the mythical island of Brasil, although...
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Mayda (category Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
brothers' 1367 map. It was crescent-shaped and sited southwest of the island of Brasil, on the same latitude of southern Brittany. It appeared as Asmaidas...
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Antillia (redirect from Island of the Seven Cities)
other, the exact source of some legendary Atlantic islands – such as the mythical islands of Brasil and the Isle of Mam – are extremely difficult to disentangle...
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sun, westward also being the direction in which the phantom island anglicised as Hy-Brasil was purported to be found. In Welsh mythology, the Otherworld...
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Sete Cidades (Ponta Delgada) (redirect from Sete Cidades, Azores Islands)
an island (or islands) represented in different positions or forms. The island of Brasil and/or Antillia (from the Brendan context) and the island of...
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historic event that marked the end of a centuries-long pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis Incognita and the beginning of the exploration and utilization...
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life of Gudrid of Iceland 2002 Hy Brasil, novel. (Ger 2004: Inselnotizen), based on the mythical island of Brasil 2003 Voyageurs, novel. (Ger 2006: Stromaufwärts)...
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English colour "dun" (greyish brown). Danu (Irish goddess) Dôn Hy-Brasil – legendary island to the west of Ireland Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1999). The Sacred Isle:...
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other legendary islands: the tri-colored circular island of braxil, located just west of Ireland, is believed to represent the mythical Brasil, which had already...
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Thule (category Mythological islands)
Saint Brendan (in the 6th century) and other distant or mythical locations, such as Hy Brasil and Cockaigne. These scholars included works by Dicuil (see...
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emerged a myriad of mythical islands in the Atlantic Ocean – Atlantis, the Fortunate Islands, Saint Brendan's Island, Brasil Island, Antillia (or Sete...
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Avalon (category Mythological islands)
Avalon (/ˈævəlɒn/) is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as...
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Tír na nÓg (category Mythological islands)
cultures include these of Annwn, Fairyland, Avalon and Hy Brasil. Tír na nÓg is depicted as an island paradise and supernatural realm of everlasting youth...
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English speakers objected to living in a racial zoo designed to protect the mythical purity of Afrikaner nationalists, they were accused by their masters of...
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over a kingdom of black women, living in the style of Amazons, on the mythical Island of California. Amazon Gazonga is a short comic series created by the...
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