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Above Vinland is a cartographic legend noting that “Eric, legate of the Apostolic See and bishop of Greenland . . . arrived in this truly vast and very rich land . . . in the last year of our ...
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After decades of debate, a map once believed to be the first-ever depiction of North America was finally revealed to be a fraud—but mystery still abounds.
Clever forgeryIn the 1950s Yale University acquired the Vinland Map, which depicts areas of North America described by the Norse sagas.
The so-called oldest map of North America — the Vinland Map — sits in Yale’s Beinecke collection in a slim volume along with a medieval […] ...
The Vinland Map, first revealed to the world by Yale University in 1965, is purportedly a Medieval map depicting Greenland and sections of what is now Newfoundland and parts of Atlantic Canada.
A document once believed to be the earliest map of what is now Canada has been proven to be a forgery. The Vinland Map, first revealed to the world by Yale University in 1965, is purportedly a ...
The analysis shows the Vinland Map, from Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a modern forgery.