A Magellán–Elcano-út spanyol krónikásai
The Spanish Chroniclers of the Magellan–Elcano Voyage

Summary/Abstract: Magellan took no chronicler of his own for the great voyage. Nor was it customary to do so. Yet those who survived the voyage and returned from the circumnavigation of the globe, in some form did report about the extraordinary journey. Some of them testified in an official form before judges, others in the course of those Spanish–Portuguese negotiations which were destined to determine the geographical position of the Maluku Islands. Many put information to writing as part of their work in the fleet. Still others drafted letters, while others boasted about their deeds to their mates who, in turn, hurried to fix them by way of the written word. Having surveyed the sources, the author concludes that not only are the testimonies coming from the participants of the voyage limited in number, they also frequently contradict each other.

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