Each new story starts before the previous ends, for the most part.
I didn't research mohemetan, it was clear by the context. In the text, the word they use for Muslim however, seems to be musselman. I'm not sure if there is a difference or a distinction, but my initial guess isnthat it seems the musselmen referred themselves as such but foreigners might call them mohametans.
And now, a prince has just slain a giant, and has revealed that he himself is the son of a giantess. Goodness gracious, I'm hooked on these stories.
And OMG, his father had pygmie ancestry. He was the son of a small, pygmie related king, and a giantess queen from Indonesia (Sumatra in the text, listed as the location of Achem, which seems to ring a bell, but I can't place it.
Apparently, as is customary for pygmies, he was born after 4 and a half months, then 4 and a half moinths later, another child.
So, now we know. Pygmies have half the gestation period of full sized humans.
Oh my, I misunderstood. He was a twin, but he was born in 4.5 months, while the twin, taking more after his mother, was tall and born in 9 months. So the claim is, twins born 4.5 months apart.
And he apparently killed the giant on a land bridge to Sumatra!!??!!?? There is just so much here.
Someone with a mind for names a places needs to read through this to see what connections can be made. I posted the first and only hard date I have found in the stories so far. I have seen some familiar names, but a rose is just another flower to me.
The hits are coming hard and fast now. Already we had princes that knew the languages of animals where there is "more wisdom and nature " than anything men have to say. Now we have a talking turtle making promises for fairies.
Giants, pygmies and faeries all introduced in one page.
Indian woman described as having skin white as snow.
Footnote says java Sumatra and Borneo make up the principle islands of the Sound. I can not find the symbol for the note in the text.
Says Borneo has a capital by the same name, but by modern accounts it didn't seem they the locals even called the island Borneo. Not sure.
Some of these places have location data that lines up with current maps. But the history of the locations don't seem to add up.
Lots of godlike beings called genius or genii (plural). Many of the stories involve one or two of them
We have dates like 1269.17 coupled with words like "nonplus" which is purportedly from the 1500s, and some other mentions that confuse the etymology. Like sabres and poniards.
"Nanquin is one of the chief cities of China, where it is certain that Fanfur reigned."
Nanjing is a good fit, but no record of Fanfur. Wiki states that a king from Borne died there in 1408, and if so, it might get a mention in this story somewhere.
Now We have a blue centaur in the mix.
Achem may be Aceh, and Fanfur, may be Fansur.
Getting close to the end I think.
Someone could make a screenplay of this and have a killer fantastical blockbuster on their hands methinks.