At 15:32 27/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Was this intended as a true story or was this a dig at Geoffrey? As I
>remember--always shakey at best--Gerald never had much use for Geoffrey,
>scoffed at his *Historia* and considered it a pack of lies. This would be
>a great way of demeaning Geoffrey and his hypothetical sources in
>comparison to the holy truths found in the Biblia Sacra.
>
>Yes of course, this is the point. It is a joke. Unfortunately Giraldus
was not familiar with the convention of appending a :-)
Oriens.
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