The 'Real' Atlantis
St. Brendan's Voyage. Brendan 'the Navigator', c. 484 to 577 AD, set sail from the Irish coast to explore the Atlantic in quest of the Earthly Paradise. Engraving, 1621.
Columbus reaching the West Indies, where native Caribbeans had a folk tradition that their islands were once part of a single land-mass. Woodcut, 1493.
Engraved frontispiece to Atlantica, Olaf Rudbeck, late 17th c. Sweden was held to be the homeland of the fabled 'Hyperborean' nation and of Atlantis itself; Rudbeck is portrayed revealing the truth to a circle of predecessors who had missed this.