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would be strange that he did not use it for his first map. We 

 must therefore suppose that it was after this that their real 

 collaboration began. 



But here we come upon another difficulty, and this is 

 the third entirely different form of the delineation of the 

 North that is found in the corresponding mappamundi in 

 the MS. of Sanudo, at Paris. There, the Scandinavian peninsula 

 is divided in an unaccountable way into several islands, the 

 largest of which bears the name " scania de regno dacie " 

 or "scadinaua." To the north of it is a long island, " got- 

 landia," which has been 

 read by some "yrlandia" or 

 "yslandia," and made into 

 Iceland [as in Thoroddsen, i. 

 1897, P« 84]. "Noruegia" 

 is written outside the border 

 of the map to the north of 

 Jutland (called *' dacia "), 

 and the name "prouincia 

 noruicie " is placed on the 

 west coast of Jutland, which 

 has been given a fantastic 

 extension towards the north 

 with many bays. An island 

 in the ocean to the north of 



Northern Europe in the mappamundi 



in the Paris MS. of Sanudo's work 



[Bjornbo, 1910, p, 123] 



Russia (" rutenia ") is marked " kareli infideles." The whole 

 of this representation is in complete disagreement with the 

 other Sanudo maps, and it is difficult to understand that 

 Vesconte can have also drawn this one, although in other 

 respects, it may bear much resemblance to the rest from his 

 hand. One might be inclined to think that some other man 

 had tinkered at this part of the map, introducing ideas which 

 he entirely misunderstood. 



A remarkable thing about it is that it is, perhaps, the first that has a legend 

 about the North. For, on the large island in the Baltic (?) we read, "In hoc 

 mari est maxima copia aietiorum " (" In this sea is the greatest abundance of 



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