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conditions Chi parle deurope et de ses contrees
PUis que devise vous ay daise et de ses con
trees et regions. je vous parleray deurope
et de ses conditions en brief pour tant
que moult souvent nous en povons oyr parler La
premiere contree deurope se est rommenie et une
partie de constantinople. rececorinde. Macedone. The
sabe. boemie. Sapronie. Pirre. et une moult saine
terre nommee archade. En celle terre sourt une fon
taine en laquelle len ne poeut estaindre charbons
ardans ne les tisons alumez. En archade a une pier
re que len ne poeut en nulle maniere du monde estain
dre puis que de feu elle est alumee jusques ad che quel
le est tout encendre. Apres archade est le royaulme
de danemarche. Celui de hongherie. puis hosteriche
et apres vient germanie que nouos appellons allemai
gne qui contient grant pourpris vers occident. ou
quel pourpris sont pluseurs grans et puissans roy
aulmes. En allemaigne sourt ung grant fleuve
nomme dunoc. Lequel sestent jusques en constan
tinople et illec entre en la mer Mais ainchois

conditions may be spoken of. [rubric:] This speaks of Europe and its countries. [/rubric]
Since I have explained to you about Asia and its countries
and regions, I will now speak about Europe and its
conditions, but briefly since we can often hear these things
spoken of elsewhere. The first country in Europe is Romania
and then there is part of Constantinople, Retecorinde (see note), Macedonia,
Thesabia, Bohemia, Sapronia, Pirre, and a very healthful
country called Arcadia. In this country there is a fountain
in which one can extinguish burning coals or flaming
logs. In Arcadia there is a stone that, once it has been
set alight, cannot be extinguished
by any means in the world until it has burned itself out.
After Arcadia is the kingdom of Denmark, then that of
Hungary, then Austria. After that comes Germany, which
we call Allemagne, which has a great expanse toward
the west, and within this expanse there are several great
and powerful kingdoms. In Germany there rises a
great river called the Dunoc [Danube], which flows
all the way to Constantinople and there enters the sea. But

conditions Chi parle deurope et de ses contrees
PUis que devise vous ay daise et de ses con
trees et regions. je vous parleray deurope
et de ses conditions en brief pour tant
que moult souvent nous en povons oyr parler La
premiere contree deurope se est rommenie et une
partie de constantinople. rececorinde. Macedone. The
sabe. boemie. Sapronie. Pirre. et une moult saine
terre nommee archade. En celle terre sourt une fon
taine en laquelle len ne poeut estaindre charbons
ardans ne les tisons alumez. En archade a une pier
re que len ne poeut en nulle maniere du monde estain
dre puis que de feu elle est alumee jusques ad che quel
le est tout encendre. Apres archade est le royaulme
de danemarche. Celui de hongherie. puis hosteriche
et apres vient germanie que nouos appellons allemai
gne qui contient grant pourpris vers occident. ou
quel pourpris sont pluseurs grans et puissans roy
aulmes. En allemaigne sourt ung grant fleuve
nomme dunoc. Lequel sestent jusques en constan
tinople et illec entre en la mer Mais ainchois

conditions may be spoken of. [rubric:] This speaks of Europe and its countries. [/rubric]
Since I have explained to you about Asia and its countries
and regions, I will now speak about Europe and its
conditions, but briefly since we can often hear these things
spoken of elsewhere. The first country in Europe is Romania
and a part of Constantinople, Retecorinde, Macedonia,
Thesabia, Bohemia, Sapronia, Pirre, and a very healthy
country called Arcadia. In this country there is a fountain
in which one cannot extinguish burning coals or flaming
logs. In Arcadia there is a stone that, once it has been
set alight, cannot be extinguished
by any means in the world until it has burned itself out.
After Arcadia is the kingdom of Denmark, then that of
Hungary, then Austria. After that comes Germany, which
we call Allemagne, which has a great expanse toward
the west, and within this expanse there are several great
and powerful kingdoms. In Germany there rises a
great river called the Dunoc [Danube], which flows
all the way to Constantinople and there enters the sea. But