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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Walter Map (fl. 1200)

Map, or Mapes, Walter. A British theologian, satirist, and poet; born in Gloucestershire or Herefordshire about 1140; died about 1210. He wrote: ‘De Nugis Curialium’ (Courtiers’ Triflings: 1182–92). His name is traditionally associated with several forms of the Arthurian story, but there is no certainty in the matter.