Abstract
Sightings of celestial portents in 1583 had sped up the dissemination of medical, alchemical, magical, and political tracts in the trade networks among Baltic merchants. Bureus found inspiration in the French antiquarian Guillaume Postel's cosmographie ideas on a revival of Celtic Europe with an accompanying revolution of arts and sciences, to which he added ideas on the northern spread of the Hyperborean people. Bureus took interest in Postel's claims concerning the double sources of prophecy: that the Old Testament prophets are completed by the Sibylline oracles, and the prophetic role of Alruna, the northern Sybil, who like the Celtic druids had been revered for her great visionary powers. The basic idea of an autochtonous arrival on a straight path from oldest antiquity was a prelude for the detailed historiographie claims put forth during the late fifteenth century Gothic Renaissance.Keywords: Bureus; Gothic Renaissance; Old Testament prophets
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