{"id":25077,"date":"2014-10-29T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25077"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:18:20","slug":"larsen-john-essen-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/larsen-john-essen-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Larsen, John Esse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><strong>John Esse Larsen <\/strong>is an independent Danish researcher who has expressed similar <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Larsen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25078\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Larsen.jpg\" alt=\"KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"133\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>views to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/vinci-felice\/\">Felice Vinci<\/a> regarding the Baltic origins of Homer\u2019s epic tales, <em>Iliad<\/em> and <em>Odyssey,<\/em> in his 2012 book, <em>Odysseus: Isse fra Od<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">1048<\/a>]<\/sup><em>.<\/em> He identifies many of the p<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Larsen-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25079\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Larsen-Map-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Larsen Map\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Larsen-Map-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Larsen-Map.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>lacenames recorded by Homer with Baltic and North Sea locations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he identified the town of Bergen, on Germany&#8217;s largest island of R\u00fcgen, as Troy<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen has also generously given Ireland a place in the <em>Odyssey, <\/em>naming the Co. Donegal hillfort <em>Grianan an<\/em> <em>Aileach <\/em>as the home of Circe! Pure speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen has an English language website<sup>(a) <\/sup>where many of his ideas are outlined, including an identification of the Pillars of Heracles with two huge sea stacks off the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/faroe-islands-n\/\">Faroe Islands <\/a>and Atlantis with Watland in the Wadden Sea region of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/north-sea\/\">North Sea<\/a><sup>(b), <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kirsten-bang\/\">Kirsten Bang<\/a> had suggested the same location for Atlantis a few years earlier<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">679<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/index.html\">https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/watland-in-the-north-sea-atlantis.html\">https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/watland-in-the-north-sea-atlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/troy-the-town-bergen-on-the-island-rugen-2.html\">http:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/troy-the-town-bergen-on-the-island-rugen-2.html<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Esse Larsen is an independent Danish researcher who has expressed similar views to Felice Vinci regarding the Baltic origins of Homer\u2019s epic tales, Iliad and Odyssey, in his 2012 book, Odysseus: Isse fra Od[1048]. He identifies many of the placenames recorded by Homer with Baltic and North Sea locations. In addition, he identified the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,22,1369,533,7703,123,1255,3477,740,54,956,65,48,3896,45],"class_list":["post-25077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-baltic","tag-faroe-islands","tag-felice-vinci","tag-grianan-an-aileach","tag-homer","tag-illiad","tag-john-essen-larrsen","tag-kirsten-bang","tag-north-sea","tag-odyssey","tag-ogygia","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-rugen","tag-troy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25077"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67227,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions\/67227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}