[174] Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships
That Are in the World, and the Arms and Devices of Each Land and
Lordship, or of the Kings and Lords Who Possess Them, written by a
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[175] Fridtjof Nansen: In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early
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[176] Konrad Kretschmer: Die Entdeckung Amerika’s in ihrer Bedeutung
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[178] Thormodus Torfaeus: Gronlandia Antiqua seu veteris Gronlandiae
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[179] Kretschmer, atlas, Pl. 13.
[180] A. E. Nordenskiöld: Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of
Charts and Sailing-Directions, transl. by F. A. Bather, Stockholm,
1897, Pl. 27.
[181] Kretschmer, atlas, Pl. 19, map 3.
[182] A. E. Nordenskiöld: Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of
Cartography, transl. by J. A. Ekelöf and C. R. Markham, Stockholm,
1889, p. 67.
[183] Kretschmer, atlas, Pl. 17.
[184] A. E. Nordenskiöld, Facsimile-Atlas, Pl. 46.
[185] _Ibid._, Pl. 47.
[186] Quoted by Nansen in his “In Northern Mists,” Vol. 1, p. 260.
[187] Henry Rink: Danish Greenland, Its People and Its Products,
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[188] William Hovgaard: The Voyages of the Norsemen to America
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[189] Finnur Jónsson: Grönlands gamle Topografi efter Kilderne:
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pp. 267–329), Pls. 2 and 3, 1899.
[190] _Op. cit._, p. 27.
[191] A. E. Nordenskiöld, Facsimile-Atlas, p. 49. Also copied by Joseph
Fischer: The Discoveries of the Norsemen in America, With Special
Relation to Their Early Cartographical Representation, transl. by B. H.
Soulsby, London, 1903, p. 70.
[192] Joseph Fischer, Pls. 1–8. See also the map of Henricus Martillus
Germanus (1489) in E. G. Ravenstein: Martin Behaim, His Life and His
Globe, London, 1908, p. 67. The name Greenland does not appear on the
latter map, but the peninsula is there.
[193] Kretschmer, atlas, Pl. 4, map 4; better facsimile reproductions
in the works by Major and Lucas cited in footnotes 1 and 2, Ch. IX.
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