IN NORTHERN MISTS 



herrings "?). In the opinion of Bjornbo this may allude to the herring fishery 

 in the Sound.i 



The type which is first known from Angellino Dalorto's 

 map of 1325 (or 1330?), and from that of 1339, signed " Angellino 

 Dulcert," which is undoubtedly by the same man, was of funda- 

 mental importance to the representation of the North on the 

 Catalan compass-charts. It has been thought that he belonged 

 to a well-known Genoese family named Dalorto, and that the 



The North, on Dalorto's map of 1325. The network of compass- 

 lines is omitted for the sake of clearness. Only a few of the 

 names are given 



first map was drawn in Italy, while the latter was certainly 

 drawn in Majorca, either by a copyist who corrupted the name 

 of Dalorto to Dulcert, or by himself, who in that case must be 

 supposed to have given his name a more Catalan sound on 

 settling in Majorca. But, in any case, these maps had Italian 

 models; this appears clearly in the form of the names 

 [cf. Kretschmer, 1909, pp. 118 f.]. 



The two maps are much alike. The oldest, of 1325 



IK. Miller [iii. 1895, p. 134] reads "alcuorum" instead of "aletiorum," 

 which would make it " the greatest abundance of flying creatures " (i.e., birds, 

 which would also be appropriate to the North). But Miller's reading is evi- 

 dently wrong, from what Bjornbo has seen on the original. 

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