The world comes alive on the Ebstorf map, not least Christ’s feet at the bottom.

* Dorothy L. Sayers was clearly a fan of the saying, and the possibilities it contained. In 1918 her poetry collection Catholic Tales and Christian Songs contained the following phrase, a world-view we may all aspire to:

‘Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;

If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!’