From 6ba34cda5afaf62c7c61e6afb66a80248b930071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Signorovitch Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 15:24:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added more draft. --- Draft.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Draft.md b/Draft.md index 69f4a50..6206401 100644 --- a/Draft.md +++ b/Draft.md @@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ tribes."[@KirsNor98, 39] "More civilized" natives seems to have been from the beginning a core aspect of the myth of Norumbega. Verrazzano named this place *Refugio*, "on account of its beauty."[@KirsNor98, 39] +They are "now believed to have been [in] the area around Narragansett Bay, +Rhode Island,"[@KirsNor98, 39] far distant from where Norumbega would +eventually be described. However, due to geographical ambiguity at the time, +Verrazzano's *Refugio* nevertheless became "at the heart of the Norumbega +legend."[@KirsNor98, 39] Five years later, Giovanni's brother Girolamo marked a +"small inlet labelled *oranbega.*"[@KirsNor98, 35] Around fifteen years after +that, Jean Alafonce, sailing up a river we know now to have been the Penobscot, +described a city called *Norombegue*.[@KirsNor98, 40-41] Just as with +Varrazzano's *Refugio*, Alafonce described "clever inhabitants [...] The people +used many words which sound like Latin and worship the sun, and they are fair +people and tall."[@KirsNor98, 41] Over time, these similar stories of civilized +natives and a river combined to form the basis for the myth of +Norumbega.[@KirsNor98, 41] + # Later Developments of the Myth in the Age of Exploration # How the Myth Found new Popularity in the Late 19th Century