Word: greenland
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...percentages were everything, one might say we had made some spectacular advances in out-of-the-way places. In five years circulation in Greenland has nearly doubled-we now have eight subscribers there. And in Red China (pop. about 750 million) we have had our own great leap forward-from 3 to 20 copies, all to officials, and we hope they learn...
...Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...cold war thriller by Mark Rascovich, Bedford appears to be powered by superpatriotism. Captain Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his ship sights a Soviet sub prowling territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty...
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 most blessed father Pascal, remained a long time in both summer and winter . . ." Since Pope Paschal II died in January 1118, this would presumably fix the time of Eric's arrival at 1117. Taken together with the depiction of Vinland, this indicates that as early as the 12th century, the rest of Europe knew about the Viking voyages. While it is possible that detailed knowledge...
...lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island in accordance with the medieval assumption that the universal sea surrounded any area that had not been explored. Both were plainly labeled (GRONELĀDA and VINLANDA INSULA...