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Some areas of Europe saw the population quadruple between the millennium and the mid-fourteenth century. Fish, seaweed, seal, and whales were all important sources of protein, but their concentrations varied and are ref lected in eating habits. Using the, admittedly, uncertain guidance of animal bone collections there was variation even among the people of similar regions. 76 For their southern neighbors, however, fish had long been a necessary foodstuff. 77 The ecclesiastical reforms beginning in the eleventh century with Pope Gregory VII and culminating with the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) had increased the number of days when meat was not allowed and fish were the only permissible source of animal protein.
Rodulfus Glabrus, Historiarum Libri Quinque, ed. John France (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 52–54. P RO L O G U E 27 35. The Anglo-Norman Version of St. Brendan, ed. Ian Short and Brian Merrilees (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1979), p. 4, different manuscripts name the patroness as either Henry’s first wife Matilda of Scotland or his second wife Adela of Louvain This version was based on a later reworking of the Brendan legend, designated vita secunda by Charles Plummer; see Vita sanctorum Hiberniae, 1: xlii–xliii (discussion) and 2:270–92 (text).
All these melded into the otherworldly “green world” that Cooper’s classic American tales still ref lected centuries later. Such was the long-lasting impression on subsequent English letters of living simultaneously in, over, and around the Atlantic in the formative era of Insular literacy. The image of a new archipelagic “desert” as an icon of nature’s mysteries emerged symbolically from the Atlantic isles. In it, pre-Scholastic and apophatic Christian traditions of nature as divine energies merged with a native continuum of seascape and landscape, in a kind of regional symbolism that would be adapted and transformed again and again by later writers.