The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.”
They were thoroughly believed in, a century or two
previously, in connection with Geography, and, in the “Mappa Mundi” (one of the earliest preserved English maps), now in Hereford Cathedral, which dates from the very early part of the fourteenth century, nearly the whole of the fanciful men hereafter mentioned are pourtrayed.
Sluper, who wrote in 1572, gives us the accompanying picture of a Cyclope, with the following remarks:—
“De Polipheme & de Ciclopiens
Tout mention Poetes anciens:
On dit encor que ce lignage dure
Auec vn oeil selon ceste figure.”