Flourens Delannoy (d. 1510) was a linguist and a historian from Vicovaro who lived roughly 200 years after the Northern Wars. He was also the author of Fairy Tales and Stories (also translated as Tales and Legends) that features stories from and about the time of the witcher Geralt and his contemporaries.[1][2]
By the time Encyclopaedia Maxima Mundi was written, his treatises became viewed as classics of the ancient language of the Empire's northern regions.[2]
Biography[]
He was born in 1432 in Vicovaro.[2]
In 1460, at 28, he became secretary and librarian to the imperial court, a position he held until 1475, when he moved to the academy in Castel Graupian to be a professor until his death at 78 in 1510.[2]
Known works[]
The following are the treatises written by Delannoy:
- Fairy Tales and Stories, or Tales and Legends
- Myths and Legends of the Peoples of the North
- The Surprise, or the Myth of the Elder Blood
- A Saga about a Witcher
- The Witcher and the Witcher Girl, or the Endless Search
Encyclopaedia Maxima Mundi entry[]
Notes[]
- In The Witcher, Delannoy is only mentioned in passing as the author of Fairy Tales and Stories. The book's inclusion and mention of its author is an anachronism since it was written 200 years after the period the game is set in.