IN NORTHERN MISTS 



The map of the world in the " Medici Atlas " is drawn in the 

 same way as the compass-charts. It has no names of towns 

 in Scandinavia, and the westernmost tongue of land is without 

 a name (see the reproduction). On the other hand, the name 

 *'alolanda" occurs inland in eastern Norway, and is there 

 obviously a corruption of " Hallandia " (cf. p. 227). This 



The north-western portion of the mappamundi in the " Medicean Marine 

 Atlas" (1351). The degrees are here inserted after the maps of Ptolemy 



mappamundi is interesting from the fact that it makes 

 the land-masses of the continent extend without a limit on 

 the north, whereas Africa is terminated by a peninsula on the 

 south. 



The map of the Venetian Francesco Pizigano, of 1367, 

 resembles Dalorto's of 1325 in its delineation of the North; 

 the south side of Norway has somewhat the same rounded 

 form with seven headlands, and "alogia" is a town on the 

 west coast. 



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