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Rügen
Kretschmer, Konrad (L)
Konrad Kretschmer (1864-1945) was a German geographer who devoted a chapter of an 1892 book
[1108] to the subject of Atlantis in which he mentioned in a footnote that a writer named Hafer proposed in 1745 that Atlantis had been situated in the Baltic Sea with its capital located on the German island of Rügen. A similar footnote was used by Gunnar Rudberg without any further information.
Hafer (L)
Hafer is the family name of German writer, who, according to Konrad Kretschmer and quoted later by Gunnar Rudberg[0881.28], nominated in 1745, the town of Rügen as the capital of Atlantis, which is situated off the north German coast on the Baltic Sea.
Larsen, John Esse
John Esse Larsen is an independent Danish researcher who has expressed similar 
views to Felice Vinci regarding the Baltic origins of Homer’s epic tales, Iliad and Odyssey, in his 2012 book, Odysseus: Isse fra Od[1048]. He identifies many of the p
lacenames recorded by Homer with Baltic and North Sea locations.
>In addition, he identified the town of Bergen, on Germany’s largest island of Rügen, as Troy(c).
Larsen has also generously given Ireland a place in the Odyssey naming the Co. Donegal hillfort Grianan an Aileach as the home of Circe! Pure speculation.<
>Larsen has an English language website(a) where many of his ideas are outlined, including an identification of the Pillars of Heracles with two huge sea stacks off the Faroe Islands and Atlantis with Watland in the Wadden Sea region of the North Sea(b), Kirsten Bang had suggested the same location for Atlantis a few years earlier[679].<
(a) https://odisse.me.uk/index.html
(b) https://odisse.me.uk/watland-in-the-north-sea-atlantis.html
(c) http://odisse.me.uk/troy-the-town-bergen-on-the-island-rugen-2.html *