IN NORTHERN MISTS 



on the west, "Finlandia" and " Alandia " (Aland, or perhaps 

 Hallandia?) in the extreme north-east. On the continent is 

 written " Kareli infideles," "Estonia," " Liuonia," etc. In 

 the Baltic are two islands, " Gotlandia " in the middle, and 

 "Ossilia" (Osel) farthest in. The shape of Jutland (with 

 the names " Dacia " and " Jutia ") the direction of the coast 

 of northern Europe and the Baltic, with Scandinavia parallel 

 to it, remind one a good deal of Edrisi's map, of the Cot- 

 toniana, and also of Carignano's map. Evidently there is 



here new information which 

 Vesconte did not possess 

 when he drew the map 

 previously mentioned ; the 

 correct placing of the names 

 in Sweden and Norway is 

 especially striking. These 

 names, as also " Jutia," occur 

 in Saxo in approximately the 

 same forms [cf. also " His- 

 toria Norvegiae"]. Marino 

 Sanudo, according to his own 

 statement, had himself sailed 

 from Venice to Flanders, 

 and had also traveled in 

 Holstein and Slavonia. He 

 was thus able to collect geographical information, and 

 as suggested by Bjornbo [1909, pp. 211 f.], may have re- 

 ceived communications from North German priests whose 

 picture of the North had been formed by the study of 

 Adam of Bremen and Saxo; but there does not appear 

 to me to be any necessity for such a hypothesis; he may 

 just as well have received direct information from people 

 who knew the localities, while doubtless the names are to a 

 great extent literary. If we suppose that it was Pietro Vesconte 

 who drew all the maps, he may have derived his information 

 about the North through Sanudo himself; but in that case it 

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Northern Europe in the mappamundi 



in the MS. of Sanudo's work at 



Oxford [Bjornbo, 1910, p. 123] 



