Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:51:44 GMT, "Neville Lindsay"
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>"hippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> "D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
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>> > 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
>>
>> I think he was working from another map. The detail of Vinland and
>Greenland
>> is just too good to have been from a description alone but you may very
>well
>> be right at it having been bound in as an illustration with the inclusion
>of
>> Vinland as a fortuitous accident. -the Troll
>
>The 'another map' approach avoids the way mapmakers worked. They got hold -
>legally or illegally - of a series of localised charts/portolans drawn by
>mariners/pilots, and tried to fit them together to for an area/world map. So
>the presumption is, if real, that this mapmaker got hold of some charts of
>Greenland and Vinland. It could well have been half a dozen or more
>different charts which were used for that area alone.
>
If the Vinland map was drawn by a map maker/cartographer as other than
a doodle, I will eat my (non-existent) hat.



Eric Stevens