Talk:Frisland/draft

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"John Dee, the Elizabethan astrologer, patron of exploration and one of the first people to use the phrase “the British empire,” extended these claims even further by suggesting to Richard Hakluyt, the famous chronicler of early English exploration, that Arthur had also conquered “Frisland,” an island purportedly located south of Greenland." Hakluyt rejected the suggestion. Stuart C. Brown, "Far Other Worlds and Other Seas: The Context of Claims for Pre-Columbian European Contact with North America," Newfoundland Studies IX: 2(Fall 1993): 235-259,

Some Landmarks in Icelandic Cartography down to the End of the Sixteenth Century Author(s): Haraldur Sigurdsson Source: Arctic, Vol. 37, No. 4, Unveiling the Arctic (Dec., 1984), pp. 389-401 Published by: Arctic Institute of North America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40510303 Accessed: 02-01-2018 21:05 UTC Mid 15th century "On a Catalan chart in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (Fig. 2), a land named Fixlanda appears northwest of Ireland. Fra Mauro's world map of 1457-1459 shows the eastern part of a country called Ixilandia, and on world map of Juan dc la Cosa (1500) this land appears to named Frislanda, though the reading is not absolutely certain (Sigurdsson, 1971:47-68)."

Nicola Zeno placed an island called Frisland on his map, although he calls it Frislanda in his book. It is similar to the island on Catalan charts and has about 22 place names from those charts plus names copied from Olaus Magnus's Map of the North depiction of the Faroes. Mercator kept both Iceland and Frislanda in his atlases.

"Fixing Fixlandia" "In the minds of voyagersand cartographers of the day, Thule and Fixlandia were either considered the same or separate, or Thule was synonymous with Iceland, with Fixlandia swirling above the mists of the Northern North Atlantic, so to speak. ” The Catalan maps of the North Atlantic showed “Ixilandia,” “Frislanda,” “Stillanda,” or “Estilanda” which according to Iceland’s most prominent historical cartographer likely refers to Iceland (Sigurðsson, 1971: 258). Even some rather late Catalan maps of Iceland show it as “Fixlandia,” such as the 1586 map by Mateo Prunes,[4] while others still show 7 islands, such as those by Juan de la Cosa [year?].[5]"

"Venetians in America: Nicolò Zen and the Virtual Exploration of the New World" Author(s): Elizabeth Horodowich Source: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 841-877 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678776 Accessed: 02-01-2018 21:22 UTC "Nicolo Zen the writer’s account, and especially his map, had an immediate impact on sixteenth-century geography and cartography. Early modern audiences accepted his text unproblematically and the most significant mapmakers of his day immediately incorporated his carta da navegar into their work, including Ortelius and Mercator, who grafted the Zenian names of Frisland, Estotiland, Icaria, and Drogeo onto their depictions of the North American continent." "Frisland appeared in numerous sixteenth-century Lafreri atlases" Doug Weller talk 16:58, 10 January 2018 (UTC)