May Challenge 2011 Entry: The Empire of Tyddarheym

[Sapiento]

Ah, I knew that there had to be a reason.

I'm just guessing and don't know which medieval map you looked at, but could it be that the labels were jammed in at any angle because the mapper was using all available space and there was not much? Many of the Medieval maps I've seen are really crowded, labelwise.

I saw the map in some tv history documentation - and yes, the map looked rather crowded with labels.