IN NORTHERN MISTS 



also a peculiarity of the maps of this type (the Catalan chart of 

 1375 has five promontories with four bays), [cf. Nordenskiold, 

 1896, pi. XI ]. The other two diocesan towns, Stavanger 

 and Hamar, are placed at the heads of the other two bays 

 to the east, and Stavanger has thus lost the remarkably correct 

 position in relation to Bergen and the south point of Green- 

 land, which it had on the older map. Trondhjem has been 

 placed at the extremity of the westernmost promontory, 

 possibly because there had been found a more correct deter- 

 mination of the latitude of the town, which was to be fitted 

 into Ptolemy's graduation; thereby the shape of Norway 

 has become still narrower and farther removed from reality. 



From the " lac scarsa " (Lake Skara, i.e., Vener) with 

 its river is derived the great lake Vona (Vener) in the 

 center of Scandinavia on all the copies of Clavus's later map 

 from which the river Vona (also mentioned in the Vienna 

 text) runs into the deep bay by Aslo (Oslo) and the island 

 of Tunsberg. A connection, especially with Dalorto's map 

 of 1339, seems again to be implied by Clavus's statement in 

 the Vienna text that on Lister-ness " white falcons are caught " 

 (" Liste promontorium, ubi capiuntur falcones albi"). On 

 Dalorto's map there is a picture of a white falcon on the head- 

 land to the west of that which Clavus has made into Lister, 

 and the words " hie sunt girfalcos " (" here are hunting 

 falcons"). That Clavus has moved the hawks to a headland 

 farther east is of small importance. Either he may have taken 

 his hawks from Dalorto's or a similar map, or else they are 

 derived from an older common source. 



Through the alteration of the south coast of Norway, it 

 became necessary to separate it from Thule, which again 

 became an island, as originally in Ptolemy; but on the copies 

 of the map it has in addition the name " Bellandiar," which 

 may be a corruption of " Hetlandia " (Shetland). The north- 

 west coast of Norway has also been given a form which agrees 

 better with the compass-charts, although it has a much more 

 east-north-easterly direction than even on the Modena map; 

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