{"id":40732,"date":"2018-11-13T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=40732"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:31:20","slug":"godwin-g-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/godwin-g-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Godwin, G.N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Nelson<\/strong> <strong>G<\/strong><strong>odwin <\/strong><strong>(1846-1907) <\/strong>was a British Army chaplain who wrote a guide to Malta <sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">1592<\/a><\/sup><sup>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup> a couple of decades before the end of the 19th century. In it, he noted that <em>&#8220;<\/em><em>These islands are supposed with good reason to <\/em><em>have formed part of a much larger tract of land now submerged, and which was either a large island or islands or <\/em><em>else formed part of Europe or Africa, if not of both.&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Godwin refers to the earlier guide written by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/borzesi-guiseppe-pericciuoli\/\">Borzesi <\/a>and appeared to be sympathetic to the idea of a Maltese Athalantis (sic) given the probable greater size of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a> in times past.<\/p>\n<p><sup>[1592]<\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><sup>+ <\/sup><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aguidetomaltese00godwgoog\/page\/n248\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aguidetomaltese00godwgoog\/page\/n248<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Nelson Godwin (1846-1907) was a British Army chaplain who wrote a guide to Malta [1592]+ a couple of decades before the end of the 19th century. In it, he noted that &#8220;These islands are supposed with good reason to have formed part of a much larger tract of land now submerged, and which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[],"class_list":["post-40732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66537,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732\/revisions\/66537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}