Porto-Nahonis, Or Portenau, Is The Mutatio Ad Nonum, A
Station Or Stage Which Is Mentioned In The Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum,
Or
description of the various routes to Jerusalem, a work compiled for the use
of pilgrims; and its name is
Apparently derived from the Kymerian language,
apparently a Celtic dialect, in which port signifies a stage, station, or
resting-place, and nav or naou signifies nine; Port-nav, Latinized
into Portus naonis, and Frenchified into Portenau, implies, therefore, the
ninth station, and is at present named Pordanone in the Friul. The account
of his travels, together with his life, are to be found: in Bolandi Actis
Sanctorum, 14to Januarii; in which he is honoured with the title of Saint.
Oderic died at Udina in 1331. In 1737, Basilio Asquini, an Italian
Barnabite of Udina, published La Vita e Viaggi del Beato Qderico da
Udihe, probably an Italian translation from the Latin of Bolandi. The
account of these travels in the collection of Hakluyt, is called "The
Journal of Friar Odericus, concerning the strange things which he sawe
among the Tartars of the East;" and was probably transcribed and translated
from Bolandi, in which these travels are entitled De mirabilibus Mundi,
or the Wonders of the World. They have very much the air of an ignorant
compilation, fabricated in the name of Oderic, perhaps upon some slight
foundation, and stuffed with ill-assorted stories and descriptions from
Marco Polo, and other, writers, interspersed with a few ridiculous
miracles, for the honour or disgrace of the minorite order.
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