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The Vinland map first came to light in 1957 (three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum (usually called in English the Tartar Relation), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian ...
The map was acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s and was said to be the earliest depiction of the New World. Yale University's controversial Vinland Map is a fake, new study confirms Skip to main content
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map (2004) ISBN 0804749639 In Quisling's Shadow : The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra (1999) ISBN 0817948325 The Frozen Echo : Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500 (1996) ISBN 0804731616
Vinland likely includes Newfoundland and possibly other areas around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. [42] There has long been debate about identifying any of the three "lands" to actual, known locations in North America. Vinland in particular has been the topic of widely divergent claims and theories. [52] In 2019 archaeologist Birgitta Wallace wrote:
The Vinland map is purportedly a 15th century Mappa Mundi, redrawn from a 13th century original and owned by Yale University. Drawn with black ink on animal skin, the map is the first known depiction of the North American coastline, created before Columbus' 1492 voyage.
OK- the logical choice would be Magnusson, I suppose, as he was co-author of one of the most respected translations of the Vinland Sagas (years before the anatase discovery), and also later wrote about the Vinland Map specifically as a forgery. David Trochos 21:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
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The Vinland map is purportedly a 15th century Mappa Mundi, redrawn from a 13th century original. Drawn with black ink on animal skin, the map is the first known depiction of the North American coastline, created before Columbus' 1492 voyage .