IN NORTHERN MISTS 



same shape as the south coast of the peninsula in question, with 

 three arched bays (the broadest on the east) and a projecting 

 point towards the south-east. The coast between this promon- 

 tory and Skane may then have been drawn with the same num- 

 ber of four large bays as on the Medici map : a deeper one farth- 

 est west, then a broad peninsula, next two wide, open bays, with 

 a narrow peninsula between them, and finally a smaller bay op- 

 posite Zealand. The " Halandi " of the Nancy map is thus 

 brought to the corresponding place with the " alolanda " of the 

 Medici map (p. 236).^ 



Thus far it may be fairly easy to compare the maps; but 

 then Norway, according to most of the compass-charts, ought 

 not to have any considerable farther extension to the west, 

 while, on the other hand. Northern ideas demanded a Greenland 

 in the far west, as well as a land in the north between that 

 and Russia. With the latter, the westernmost tongue of 

 land in Norway on the Medicean mappamundi ^ agrees 

 remarkably well. The southern point of Clavus's Greenland 

 has also the same length in proportion to the west coast of 

 Ireland, and about the same breadth, as on this map. There 

 was also an extensive mass of land in the north. According 

 to various representations, such as those of Vesconte's map- 

 pamundi, Saxo's description (cf. p. 223), and others, there 



incorporated with Norway, but Bjornbo and Petersen [1904, p. 194; 1909, p. 

 158] think that this must be regarded as " one of the unfortunate results of his 

 desire to reduce all Clavus's contributions to a single one"; why, we are not 

 told. According to my view, there can be no doubt that Storm is right. 

 Clavus has made the south coast of Thule into the southernmost coast of 

 Norway, with its south-eastern point due north of the island of Ocitis, and its 

 south-western point north of the west side of Orcadia, exactly as on Ptolemy's 

 map. In addition, this coast has the same latitude and longitude as the south 

 coast of Ptolemy's Thule. 



1 Of course there is always the possibility that Clavus may have had maps 

 of the Medici type which resembled the Nancy map even more closely than 

 that with which we are acquainted. 



~ On this map the tongue of land in question is nameless, while on the map 

 of Europe in the " Medicean Atlas " it is given the name of " alogia," which 

 shows it to have been regarded as a part of Norway (see the reproduction, 

 p. 260). 



