- Project Runeberg -  Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus /
70

(1555) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Olaus Magnus
Table of Contents / Innehåll | << Previous | Next >>
  Project Runeberg | Catalog | Recent Changes | Donate | Comments? |   

Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Liber Secundus. De mira natura rerum Septentrionalium - Cap. XI. De Pygmæis Gruntandiæ, & rupe Huitsark

scanned image

<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Below is the raw OCR text from the above scanned image. Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan. Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!

This page has been proofread at least once. (diff) (history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång. (skillnad) (historik)

70        DE MIRA NAT. RERVM SEP.



illustration placeholder

De Pygmæis Gruntlandiæ, & rupe Huitsark.


CAP. XI.


                                        SVPRADICTO capite proximo parumper de excelsa
Huitsark.                                         rupe Huitsark medio maris tractu inter Islandiam, & Gruntlandiam
                                        sita, dictum videtur: nec tædet eam repetere per
                                        amplius explanandam. In ea etenim circa annos Domini
                                        M. CCCC. XCIIII1. duo insigniores piratæ, Pining,
Piratæ Pining, &Pothorst                                        & Pothorst, ab omni humano consortio, Aquilonarium Regum
                                        severissimo edicto ob atrocissima latrocinia, quasi indespectum,
                                        & contemptum omnium regnorum, & armatorum,
                                        cum complicibus suis piratis proscripti habitabant
multaque crudelia facta in quoscunque sive prope, sive a longe navigantes, committebant:
vti & alio tempore priore Vitelliani plures, & insigniores piratæ ( sic dicti)
Vitelliani, de quibus Albertus Crantzius in Vandalia. magna facinora egerunt, & ad vltimum communibus omnium regnorum Aquilonarium
armis e vivis sunt sublati. Ita & quidam Kniphoff anno M. D. XXV.
per Hamburgenses cum LXX. complicibus e potentissima nave Galion dicta, extractis,
supplicio capitis, & rotæ suspensione sunt puniti. In hujus altissimæ rupis supercilio
Kniphof. compassus circulis, & lineis plumbeis satis ampla rotunditate, opera prædictorum
Compassus. Pining, & Pothorst, formatus est: quo meta compendiosior latrocinari volentibus
data est, vt sciant, quorsum opulentiores deprædationes extendi possint.
Videntur præteream in superiori tabula duo disparis quantitatis homines
Pygmæi, seu nani. bellatores: quorum pusillioris staturæ homunculus intrepide
sese majori obiiciens, triumphator exultat.
Non enim minori animo in omnem casum
majoribus se obiicit,
quam si gigantea
potentia
gloriari, & prævalere posset.
Iterum



<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Project Runeberg, Mon Dec 11 13:21:44 2023 (aronsson) (diff) (history) (download) << Previous Next >>
https://runeberg.org/olmagnus/0156.html

Valid HTML 4.0! All our files are DRM-free