Supernatural Evidence?

[abaris]

That this didn't happen almost makes one think that the author in question was simply a literate barbarian who knew as much about oceanography as a pig knows about Plutarch.

Boru

For their time probably pretty educated.

I remember being presented with a medieval sheet at university where some clergyman was called "hochgelahrt man". Which translates into highly learned man. And I was musing, what could you have known to deserve that title. Not only have you been born into the most ignorant century of the middle ages, you also were a clergyman. So you basically knew nothing or real value.