Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

hippo wrote in message ...
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>"David B." wrote in message
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>> 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

And yet that is essentially the same as one of the phenomena I was
describing with reference to the depiction of the Old World- accuracy at
the medium scale (thousands of kilometres) but not at the small scale- as
if he's following an outline, but creating detail by fairly random wiggles
of the pen.

Bearing that in mind, take a look right over at the eastern side of the
Vinland map, and consider the curious resemblance of the three northern
islands there to the configuration of Sakhalin, Hokkaido and Honshu on a
modern map. The depiction of "Hokkaido" and "Honshu" is particularly
interesting because the peninsula at the west end of the real Hokkaido,
separated from Honshu by the strait Tsugaru Kaikyo, appears to have been
detached from the V.M.  "Hokkaido" and used to elongate "Honshu" northward.