The Fortunate Isles (short story)

	Ash
	El Galgo, 1485
	David Llewellyn
	The Legends of Ashildr
	10 December 2015
The Legends of Ashildr
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The Fortunate Isles was a short story published in The Legends of Ashildr.

Summary

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Characters

• Ash
• Francisco Lopez
• Garcia
• Fernando

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• Ash is an alias of Ashildr.
• Diego was the former ship's lookout.
• Marco Polo and his brothers traversed the old land routes from Europe to Asia.

Places

• Seville is a city.
• Upon boarding, Ash believes the El Galgo is bound for Genoa or Marseilles.
• Ash steals a brooch for the Condottiero in Pisa.
• Ash has recently left Paris.
• After leaving the port of Seville, the El Galgo sails down the River Guadalquivir.
• The Azores are Portuguese islands which lie to the west of Seville.
• The El Galgo is searching for a western route from Europe to Asia by sea, as the Mamluk and Ottoman Sultans, in Egypt and Turkey, have made land routes impassable.
  • Reaching India, China or Japan means either sailing around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, which no European has ever done, or sailing west across the Atlantic.
• The El Galgo stops on the island of São Miguel, located between Europe and China.

Ships

• Ash flees aboard the El Galgo - The Greyhound, a Spanish ship.
• The El Galgo is in a race with the San Giorgo, a Genoese ship.

Notes

• The story is told from a third person point of view, unlike two other stories in the anthology.

Continuity

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