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Here Be Dragons: The Mythic Bite of the Komodo
By Christie Wilcox | June 25, 2013 8:00 am

Here Be Dragons: first written on the Hunt-Lenox Globe c. 1510 as the latin phrase HC SVNT DRACONES.
To a mediaeval mapmaker, the world was a vast and scary place. Explorers that braved the seemingly endless oceans in search of new worlds often didn’t return, and those that did carried with them nightmarish tales of monsters and serpents. It was the mapmaker’s task to warn future travelers of the dangers that awaited them in far-off lands. Based on their drawings, I cannot even begin to imagine the beasts that haunted these cartographer’s dreams. Their creative expressions of fear were eventually distilled into a single, ominous phrase: here be dragons." Read the article to find out more about Komodo Dragons and how they fit into the history of the work!

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