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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 ...
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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
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
Vinland map. During the mid-1960s, Yale University announced the acquisition of a map purportedly drawn around 1440 that showed Vinland and a legend concerning Norse voyages to the region. [123] However certain experts doubted the authenticity of the map, based on linguistic and cartographic inconsistencies.
Raleigh Ashlin Skelton (21 December 1906 – 7 December 1970) is best known for his work on the history of cartography and particularly his attempts to prove the authenticity of the Vinland map. Life [ edit ]
The latter was first brought to public attention in 1965 because it had been bound with the Vinland map, a modern forgery. It is part of the Beinecke collection at Yale University Library . Unlike the map, the Relation was generally accepted by scholars as authentic, although there were dissenters.
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.