IN NORTHERN MISTS 



towards it [cf. J. Fischer, 1902, pp. 87 £.]. We have already 

 seen that Adam of Bremen regarded Greenland as an island 

 ** farther out in the ocean opposite the mountains of Suedia " 

 (see Vol. I, p. 194), and in his additions to the copy of Ptolemy, 

 Cardinal Filastre (before 1427) states that Greenland lay to 

 the north of Norway; we find the same view in the letter of 



Map of the North by Nicolaus Germanus (before 1482), after 



Claudius Clavus, but with Greenland transferred to the north 



of Norway 



1448 from Pope Nicholas V. (see above, p. 113).^ It is also 

 somewhat remarkable that on the Genoese mappamundi of 

 1447 (or 1457) there occurs a peninsula north of Scandinavia 

 just at the place where Clavus's Greenland should begin 

 (see p. 287). 2 On Fra Mauro's mappamundi (1457-59) there 



1 Cf. Gronl. Hist. Mind., iii. p. 168. Bjornbo [1910, p. 79] by a slip quotes 

 the letter to Pope Nicholas V. of about the same date, instead of that given 

 above. 



2 According to Lelewel [Epilogue, pi. vi] this peninsula bears the name of 

 *' Grinland," but this cannot be seen on the somewhat indistinct original [cf. 

 Bjornbo, 1910, p. 80; Ongania, pi. x.]. 



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