E. This is Jotunheimer, or the home of the misshapen giants.
F. Here is thought to be a fjord, or sound, leading to Russia.
G. A rocky land often referred to in histories.
H. What island that is I do not know, unless it be the island that a Venetian found, and the Germans call Friesland.”
It will be observed under the B of the Key, the Norse of 1570 did not identify the Vinland of 1000 with the America of later discoveries.
This map is much the same, but differs somewhat in detail, from the one called of Stephanius, as produced in Kohl’s Discovery of Maine, p. 107, professedly after a copy given in Torfæus’ Gronlandia Antiqua (1706). Torfæus quotes Theodorus Torlacius, the Icelandic historian, as saying that Stephanius appears to have drawn his map from ancient Icelandic records. The other maps given by Torfæus are: by Bishop Gudbrand Thorlakssen (1606); by Jonas Gudmund (1640); by Theodor Thorlakssen (1666), and by Torfæus himself. Cf. other copies of the map of Stephanius in Malte-Brun’s Annales des Voyages, Weise’s Discoveries of America, p. 22; Geog. Tidskrift, viii. 123, and in Horsford’s Disc. of America by Northmen, p. 37.
It is not necessary to follow the course of the Greenland cartography farther with any minuteness. As the sixteenth century ended we have leading maps by Hakluyt in 1587 and 1599 (see Vol. III. 42), and De Bry in 1596 (Vol. IV. 99), and Wytfliet in 1597, all of which give Davis’s Straits with more or less precision. Barentz’s map of 1598 became the exemplar of the circumpolar chart in Pontanus’ Rerum et Urbis Amstelodamensium Historia of 1611.[781] The chart of Luke Fox, in 1635, marked progress[782] better than that of La Peyrère (1647), though his map was better known.[783] Even as late as 1727, Hermann Moll could not identify his “Greenland” with “Groenland.” In 1741, we have the map of Hans Egede in his “Grönland,” repeated in late editions, and the old delineation of the east coast after Torfæus was still retained in the 1788 map of Paul Egede.
Note.—The annexed map is a reduced fac-simile of the map in the Efterretninger om Grönland uddragne af en Journal holden fra 1771 til 1788, by Paul Egede (Copenhagen, 1789). Paul Egede, son of Hans, was born in 1708, and remained in Greenland till 1740. He was made Bishop of Greenland in 1770, and died in 1789. The above book gives a portrait. There is another fac-simile of the map in Nordenskjöld’s Exped. till Grönland, p. 234.