Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

"David B"  wrote in message

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

> >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.

Since the map falls apart with regard to accuracy south of the horn of
Africa and west of the Persian Gulf I suspect that the islands shown are
more likely supposed to be the spice islands, not Japan. -the Troll