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and on a map of Europe (reproduced pp. 236, 260). The repre- 

 sentation to a great extent resembles the Dalorto type. Its 

 division of western Scandinavia into three great promontories 

 no doubt recalls the Carignano map to such an extent that one 

 may suppose it to have been influenced by some Italian source 

 of that map; but in the names it shows more resemblance 

 to the Dalorto maps: the delineation of the Baltic and of 

 the peninsula corresponding to Skane is practically the same; 

 it perhaps resembles in particular the Modena map and the 

 anonymous map at Florence (cf. pp. 232, 233). Jutland, on 

 the other hand, has been greatly prolonged and given a different 

 shape. The three great tongues of land in Norway, with a 

 smaller one on the east, near Denmark, may correspond to 

 the four headlands on the south coast of Norway on the Dalorto 

 maps [cf. especially that of 1339]. Through these being con- 

 siderably increased in size, and the bays between them being 

 enlarged, the west coast of Norway has been moved even 

 farther to the west than on the map of 1325, and has been 

 given a somewhat more westerly longitude than Ireland. On 

 the map of Europe "C. trobs " (" capitolum tronberg"? 

 i.e., Tonsberg) is written on the first bay (like " trunberg " on 

 the Dalorto map) ; " c. bergis " (" capitolum bergis," i.e., the 

 see of Bergen), and " c. trons" (?) (the see of Trondhjem) on 

 each of the two other bays. Finally, " alogia," which on the 

 Dalorto map is marked as a town on the northern west coast 

 of Norway, to the north of Nidroxia (Nidaros), has followed 

 the west coast and is placed on the westernmost tongue of 

 land. How the whole of this delineation came about is 

 difficult to say. One might be tempted to think that it was 

 through a misunderstanding of a description of Norway, like 

 that we find in the " Historia Norvegiae," where the country is 

 described as divided into four parts, the first being the land 

 on the eastern bay, near Denmark, the second " Gulacia " 

 (Gulathing), the third " Throndemia," the fourth " Halogia.''^ 



1 Cf. Mon. Hist. Norv., ed. Storm, 1880, p. 77. The circumstance that on 

 one of the Sanudo maps (p. 224), Norway is divided into four peninsulas, 

 may be connected with a similar conception. 



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