[289] In Oxford, a.d. 1258. This is not a very certain tradition.
[290] See Nordenskjöld, Periplus, 50. "The Landnamabok was written by Are Torgillson Frode, who died in 1148;" but "the passage here in question first occurs in a copy or revision by Hauk Erlandsson, who lived at the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth."
[291] "Prima dedit nautis usum magnetis Amalphis."
[292] Such a compass-box is figured on the margins of some MSS. of Dati's Sphera of the early fifteenth century. See Nordenskjöld Periplus, p. 45.
[293] Periplus, p. 47.
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