Frisland, 136, 175, 185;
Buss Island and, 177;
confusion with Iceland, 141;
occurrence of name, 140;
on Zeno map of 1558, 141
Galvano, Antonio, 72
Germain, Louis, 21
Germanus, Donnus Nicolaus, world map (after 1466), Greenland on, 105,
139;
reproduction of section (ill.), opp. 105
Ginnungagap, 178
Gnupsson, Eric, 109
Gosch, C. C. A., 175
Grand Banks, 185
Grand Manan, 188
Great Abaco, 155, 162–163
Great Iceland, 184
Greeks, early exploration, 4
Green Island, 95;
on sixteenth-century maps, 97;
various islands;
shrinkage of the name, 99
Greenland, Adam of Bremen’s account, 94;
on Catalan map of about 1480, 62, 96, 120;
on Clavus map of 1427, 105, 139;
on Coppo map of 1528, 96;
on Desceliers map of 1546, 99;
on Germanus (D. N.) map, 105, 139;
insular character, 95;
intercourse with Markland, 119;
life of Icelandic colony, 106;
on Nicolay map of 1560, 98;
Norse settlements, 137;
Norse settlements (with map), 103;
origin of name, 101;
on Ortelius map of 1570, 99;
as a peninsula, 105;
on Sigurdr Stefánsson map, 106;
Thorláksson map of 1606 (ill.), 98;
on Zeno map of 1558, 105, 139
Greenlanders, early explorations, 109
Grocland, 184
Gunnbjörn’s skerries, 174
Haiti, 162
Hall, James, 177
Hand of Satan, 156, 178
Hardiman, James, 50
Harrisse, Henry, 144
Hauk’s Book on Markland, 114
Hebrides, 181, 182, 183
Helluland, 115, 116, 188
Henriques, Borges de F., 171, 173
Hereford map of 1275, St. Brendan’s Islands on, 38
Himilco, 27
Holmes, W. H., 3
Hood, Thomas, 180
Hovgaard, William, on Icelandic settlement of Greenland, 102, 109,
110, 115, 116;
suggestion of two Winelands, 119
Humboldt, Alexander von, on Antillia, 148;
on Bianco map of 1436, 157;
on Corvo, 167;
“Examen critique,” 37, 52, 55, 78, 81, 148, 167, 169, 185
Hydrographic Office, 30, 31, 32
I in Mar, 155, 188
Icaria, 136;
on Zeno map of 1558, 142
Iceland, confusion on maps, 141;
Great Iceland, 184;
Greenland discovery and relations, 101;
on Zeno map of 1558, 141
Illa Verde, 96.
_See also_ Greenland
Imagination in cartography, 143
Incorporado, 180
Ireland, submerged lands about, 25
Irish sea-roving, 5
Island of the Seven Cities. _See_ Seven Cities (island)
Islands, cataclysms, 174;
mythical and scattered, 174
Italians, exploration, 8
Jamaica, 163, 188
Janvier, T. A., 30
Jomard, E. F., 8, 30, 43, 55, 70, 83, 147, 149, 166, 179, 182
Jónsson, Finnur, 102–103
Jowett, Benjamin, 11, 18
Karlsefni, Thorfinn, 109, 115, 116;
geography of narrative and later records, 117
Kilda, St., 142, 183
Kjalarness, 116, 118
Kohl, J. G., 139
Kohl collection, 57, 85
Krakens, 149
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