Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

Yes....

The presumed VM cartographer obviously just faired in some boundaries in
the extreme North.  He may well have only been working from a
narrative ---- not another map of "Vinland" or Greenland.

His map was an illustration ---- bound together with the _Speculum
Historiale_ of Vincent of Beauvais and the _Tartar Relation_ of Father
Carpini.  The VM in front, the SH in the middle and the TR at the back.

The wormholes in all three publications match perfectly ---- right down
to the little serrated tooth marks chewed by the worms.

DSH

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| "David B." wrote in message
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| > hippo wrote in message ...
| > >
| > >The cartographer must have been working with
| > >several extant maps made by others or from information supplied by
them
| > >since the Med. and N. Atlantic are fairly well done, but the
Norwegian
| > >coast, White Sea, and Baltic are not. I think it is a map made by
an
| > >Icelander tacked on to another of the 'known world'. It was clearly
not
| > made
| > >by a Swede, Norwegian, or Dane, or alone by someone from the
Med. -the
| > Troll
| >
| > As I have indicated, the Med and the Atlantic coast of the Old World
(and
| > almost every other aspect of the Old World coastline, with one very
very
| > interesting exception) can be shown to be directly copied from the
Andrea
| > Bianco mappa mundi of 1432-6, but with odd distortions for which I
canot
| > think of a medieval explanation- hence my questions on this ng. As
you
| have
| > noted elsewhere, the depiction of Greenland (as an island, contrary
to
| > medieval descriptions which have it joined to Eurasia by a barren
waste,
| > presumably the Polar ice-cap) has been observed to be worryingly
similar
| to
| > some modern maps- specifically as it appears on maps centered on the
North
| > Pole.
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| If you will look at the scale of the embayment on the Vinland map with
the
| overall scale and latitudes it is pretty clear it only represents the
| southern end of Greenland with the whole drawn as an island probably
for the
| same reason N. America was drawn as one. -the Troll