Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons

It was a popular belief that medieval mapmakers inscribed the phrase "Here Be Dragons" on maps showing unknown regions of the world. Unfortunately, however, it appears that, apart from an inscription on a single, 16th-century globe, this claim is unfounded.

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