Image: Skálholt-Karte

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Description: The Skálholt-map made by the icelandic teacher Sigurd Stefansson in the year 1570. Description Greenlands from Bjørn Jonsen of Skarsaa in Iceland from the year 1669, latin by Theodor Thorlac. Note: Helleland ('Stone Land'=Baffin island) Markland ('forest land'=Labrador) Skrælinge Land ('land of the savages'=Labrador) Promontorium Vinlandiæ (the of Vinland=Newfoundland)
Title: Skálholt-Karte
Credit: Sigurd Stefánsson - Beschreibung Grönlands und die Skálholt-Karte
Author: Sigurd Stefánsson - Copy by Jörg Schulz
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