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"Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
- Sharon Kay Penman
- 1985
Oct 19, 2023 · Medieval mapmakers supposedly 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.
Aug 12, 2022 · Dragons, sea creatures, and other mythical beasts were often drawn in and around maps as decoration and as a warning about exploring parts unknown. The Mappa Mundi by Gervase of Ebsdorf created around 1234-1240 was the oldest surviving map depicting dragons.
Jul 13, 2017 · Old maps never actually warned “Here Be Dragons”—ironically, that itself is a myth repeated often enough to be taken for truth—but medieval cartographers did decorate maps with images of sea...
Roger Zelazny’s Here There Be Dragons is a short fairy tale that first appeared as one volume of a two-volume limited-edition deluxe illustrated signed slipcased hardcover set published by Donald M. Grant in 1992.
Nov 24, 2018 · Contemporary maps may often draw from larger and more complex datasets than these medieval efforts, but this may simply mean that the dragons--unspoken assumptions, biases in the data, extractive research practices--are more artfully hidden.
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Oct 20, 2017 · The Latin words Hic Sunt Dragones (Here be Dragons) or Hic Sunt Leones (Here are Lions), appear on some early maps together with drawings of sea monsters or strange beasts, perhaps to...
