CLAUDIUS CLAVUS 



but this was, of course, necessary to make room for the sea 

 " Nordhenbodnen " (Nordbotn). That the compass-charts might 

 lead to something resembling Clavus's last form of Scan- 

 dinavia, and especially of the south coast of Norway, is 

 shown by the map of Europe in Andrea Bianco's atlas of 

 1436, which must have been drawn without knowledge of 

 Clavus's work. If, on this map, we move the coast of the 

 Baltic farther south, and Skane also, which would be necessi- 

 tated by a better knowledge of Denmark (and by the alteration 

 of the map, fol- 

 lowing Ptolemy), 

 and draw the 

 coast-line of Nor- 

 way towards the 

 east-north-east 

 from the south- 

 western promon- 

 tory ^^insteaa 01 r^^^ north-western portion of the map of Europe 

 making it go in a in Andrea Bianco's atlas of 1436. The 

 northerly direc- compass-lines are omitted 



tion), we shall get a Scandinavia of very similar type to that in 

 Clavus's later map. 



Bjornbo and Petersen have maintained in their mono- 

 graph that Clavus must have been in Norway before he drew 

 this map, and that, among other things, his remarkably 

 correct latitude for Trondhjem must be due to his own 

 observation of the length of the day at the summer solstice. 

 Storm [1889, p. 140] seems also to have supposed that Clavus 

 may really have been in Norway. To me it appears that 

 his map and text are conclusive evidence against his ever 

 having been there; for a man who had sailed to Trondhjem 

 along the coast of Norway could not possibly have produced 

 a cartographical representation of the country so entirely 

 at variance with reality as Clavus has done, however ignorant 

 we may suppose him. The fact in itself that Trunthheim 

 (Trondhjem), or Nidrosia, is placed at the extremity of 



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