[194] Thormodus Torfaeus: Gronlandia Antiqua, seu veteris Gronlandiae
descriptio. Copenhagen, 1706, Tabula II, after p. 20. Also reproduced
by Gustav Storm: Studies on the Vineland Voyages, _Mémoires Soc. Royale
des Antiquaires du Nord_ (Copenhagen), N. S., 1884–89, pp. 307–370 (map
on p. 333); by Fridtjof Nansen: In Northern Mists, Vol. 2, p. 7; and
by W. H. Babcock: Early Norse Visits to North America, _Smithsonian
Misc. Colls._, Vol. 59, No. 19, Washington, D. C., 1913, map facing p.
62; by Hovgaard, _op. cit._, opp. p. 118. These are two versions, the
one appearing in Torfaeus (1706), reproduced herewith (Fig. 18) and
by Nansen, the other a copy of about 1670 belonging to Bishop Thordr
Thorláksson, now preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen (Old
Collection, No. 2881, 4to), of Stefánsson’s original map, which was
lost. The earlier version is reproduced by Storm, Babcock, and Hovgaard.
[195] Hovgaard. p. 39.
[196] Often quoted, e. g. by Hovgaard, p. 37.
[197] Pp. 69–124 in Gustav Storm: Monumenta historica Norvegiae,
Christiania, 1880; reference on p. 76. In English, e. g. in Hovgaard,
p. 167.
[198] Portolano Laurenziano-Gaddiano, 1351; see Pl. 5 of facsimile in
Portfolio 5 of Theobald Fischer: Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt- und
Seekarten italienischen Ursprungs, 1 vol. of text and 17 portfolios
containing photographs of maps, Venice, 1877–1886.
Catalan atlas, 1375, Pls. 11–14 in A. E. Nordenskiöld: Periplus: An
Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing-Directions, transl. by
F. A. Bather, Stockholm, 1897.
Pareto map, 1455, Pl. 5 in atlas accompanying Konrad Kretschmer:
Die Entdeckung Amerika’s in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des
Weltbildes, 2 vols. (text and atlas), Berlin, 1892 (our Fig. 21).
[199] M. A. P. d’Avezac: Notice des découvertes faites au Moyen-Age
dans l’Océan Atlantique antérieurement aux grandes explorations
portugaises du quinzième siècle, Paris, 1845, pp. 8–9. See “I de
Madera” on Benincasa map, 1482, in Kretschmer, atlas, Pl. 4 (our Fig.
22).
[200] Fully set forth in A. M. Reeves: The Finding of Wineland the
Good, London, 1890; summarized in W. H. Babcock: Early Norse Visits to
North America, _Smithsonian Misc. Colls._, Vol. 59, No. 19, Washington,
D. C., 1913, pp. 64 _et seq._
[201] Reeves, pp. 42 _et seq._ This work gives facsimiles of the pages
in Hauk’s Book dealing with the saga of Eric the Red, as well as the
printed text in Icelandic, also a translation and notes distinguishing
slight divergencies of Arna Magnæan MS. 557. I have followed the latter
as slightly preferable and equally authentic and archaic in substance.
William Hovgaard (The Voyages of the Norsemen to America, New York,
1914, p. 103) translates a little differently from Reeves in details
but gives much the same purport.
[202] For example 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, pp. 7–8.
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