INDEX 



Denys, Nicolas, ii. 3 



Denmark, i. 82, 94, 180, 185, 234; ii. 



179, 201, 204, 205, 208, 237; called 



"Dacia" on mediaeval maps, ii. 188, 



190, 222, 225; representation of, in 



mediaeval cartography, ii. 219, 225, 



235. 250, 286 

 Desimoni, C, ii. 325 

 Deslien's map of 1541, ii. 322 

 Detlefsen, D., i. 43, 70, 71, 72, 83, 84, 



85, 93, 97, 99, 102, 119 

 Dicaearchus, i. 44, 73 

 Dicuil, i. 58, 160, 162-7, 252, 362; IL 43, 



51, 229 

 Dihya, Ibn, ii. 200-1, 209 

 Dimashqi, ii. 212-3 

 Diodorus Siculus, i. 23, 29-30, 44, 50, 



51, 52, 58, 63, 71, 80, 87, 90, 346; ii. 



48 

 Dionysius Perigetes, i. 114-5, 123, 



356; ii. 47, 48, 192 

 Dipylon vases, i. 236-7 

 Disappearing (fairy) islands, i. 370, 



378-9; ii. 213 

 Disc, Doctrine of the earth as a, i. 8, 



12, 126, 127, 153, 198; ii. 182 

 Disco Bay, Greenland, i. 298, 300, 301, 



302, 306, 307; ii. 72 

 "Doegr" (==half a 24 hours' day), 



used as a measure of distance, i. 



287, 310, 322, 335; ii. 166, 169, 170, 



171 

 Dogs as draught animals, ii. 69, 72, 



145, 146 

 Down Islands (Duneyiar), i. 285, 



286 

 Dozy, R., ii. 55, 200, 201 

 Dozy and de Goeje, ii. 51, 204 

 Draper's Company, Protest of, against 



Sebastian Cabot, ii. 302, 330, 338, 



342 

 " Draumkvaede " (Dream-Lay), i. 367, 



381 

 Driftwood, in Greenland, i. 299, 305, 



307, 308; ii. 37, 96 

 Drusus (The elder Germanicus), i. 83 

 " Dumna," island, i. 106, 117; ii. 257 

 Dumont d'Urville, i. 376 

 Dvina, river, i. 173, 174, 222; ii. 135, 



136, 137, 142, 146, 164, 176 

 402 



Eastern Settlement of Greenland, i. 

 263, 265, 267, 271, 272, 274, 275, 276, 

 296, 301, 302, 307, 310, 311, 321; ii. 

 71, 82, 90, 107, 108, 112, 116; decline 

 of, ii. 95-100, 102 



Ebstorf map, i. 102, 191; ii. 187 



Edda, The older (poetic), i. 273 



Edda, The younger (" Snorra-Edda "), 

 i. 273, 298, 304, 342, 364 



Eden, Richard, ii. 341 



Edrisi, i. 182, 382; ii. 51-53, 202-8, 209, 

 210, 216; his map, ii. 192, 203, 208, 

 220, 284 



Egede, Hans, ii. 40, 41, 74, loi, 104, 

 105, 106 



Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga, i. 175, 218 



Egyptian myths, i. 347 



Einar Sokkason, i. 283, 294 



Einar Thorgeirsson, lost in Green- 

 land, i. 284 



Einhard, i. 167, 179, 180, 185 



Eiriksfjord (Greenland), i. 267, 268, 

 271, 275, 317, 318, 319, 321; ii. 112 



Elk ("achlis"), i. 105, 191 



" Elymus arenarius " (lyme grass), 

 ii- 5 



Elysian Fields, i. 347, 349, 351 



Empedocles, i. 12, 127 



England (see Britain), Arab geog- 

 raphers on, ii. 204, 211; maritime 

 enterprise of, ii. 180, 294-5, 343? in 

 mediaeval cartography, ii. 218 



English State document (1575) on 

 North- West Passage, ii. 129-30, 132 



" Engronelant," ii. 277, 279, 373 



d'Enjoy, Paul, i. 377 



Eratosthenes of Cyrene, i. 20, 29, 44, 

 47, 52, 55, 61, 73, 75-7, 78, 82, 115; 

 ii. 292 



Eric Blood-Axe, ii. 136 



Eric of Pomerania, ii. 118, 119 



Eric the Red, i. 251, 256, 259, 262, 280, 

 288, 293, 318-21, 324, 330, 337, 344, 

 368; ii. 22, 77, 88; discovers Green- 

 land, i. 260, 263, 266-70. 



Eric the Red, Saga of, i. 260, 266, 273, 

 291, 292, 293, 296, 310, 313, 314, 318, 

 322, 331, 332-5, 337, 338, 342, 343, 

 367, 382; ii. 4, 6, 8, 10, II, 14, 15, 22, 

 23, 24, 42, 43, 50, 59, 61, 89, 91, 206; 



