IN NORTHERN MISTS 



were principally Nicolaus Germanus's mappamundi in the 

 Ulm editions of Ptolemy, of 1482 and i486, where Greenland 

 is placed to the north of Norway, and Marco Polo's travels, 



Northernmost Europe and the North Polar regions on Behaim's globe, 1492 



which speak of the northern regions of Asia. Besides these 

 a name like "tlant Venmarck" (the land of Finmark), for 

 instance, points to a use of the same older authority as in 

 the anonymous letter to Pope Nicholas V., of about 1450, 



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