COMPASS-CHARTS 



(1330?),* gives a more complete representation of the North 

 and of the Baltic than any earlier map known. In its 

 names it shows a connection both with Carignano's map 

 and with Marino Sanudo, but new names and fresh information 

 have been added, the delineation of Great Britain and Ireland 

 is more correct, and there is also a more reasonable representa- 

 tion of Scandinavia and of the extent of the Baltic than on 

 Carignano's map. Among new names in the North may be 

 mentioned " trunde " (Trondhjem, cf. " Throndemia " in the 

 " Historia Norvegiae "), and " alogia " for a town on the west side 

 of Norway; this is evidently Halogia (Halogaland), a form of 

 the name which was used, for instance, in the " Historia 

 Norvegiae " and by Saxo. Another name in the far north, and 

 again at the south-western extremity of Norway, is " alo- 

 landia" (see illustration, p. 226). One might suppose that 

 the form of the name and its assignment to these two places 

 is due to a confusion of the name Halogaland with Hallandia 

 [in Saxo] and "alandia" on the Sanudo- Vesconte map 

 (see p. 224). 



It will be seen that Norway, which is represented as a 

 pronouncedly mountainous country,^ has, on this map, been 

 given a great increase of breadth, so that its west coast is 

 brought to the same longitude as the west coast of Great 

 Britain. In the legends attached to Norway we read that from 

 its deserts are brought " birds called gilfalcos " (" hunting 

 falcons"), and in the extreme north is the inscription: 



" Here the people live by hunting the beasts of the forest, and also on fish, 

 on account of the price of corn, which is very dear. Here are white bears and 

 many animals." 



The substance of this may be derived in the main from the 

 " Geographia Universalis" (cf. pp. 189 f.; see also p. 177). 

 Islands in the ocean to the west of Norway are: farthest north, 



1 Gf. A. Magnaghi, 1898. The date is somewhat indistinct on the map, and 

 it is uncertain whether it is MCCCXXV. or MCCCXXX. 



^ The dark shading along the coast and across the country represents moun- 

 tain chains. 



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