Vinland Map HiRes
Dimensions: 27.8 by 41.0 centimeters (10.9 by 16.1 inches) The Vinland map / chart is purportedly a 15th century Mappa Mundi, redrawn from a 13th century original. Drawn with black ink on animal skin, if authentic the map is the first known depiction of the North American coastline, created before Columbus' 1492 voyage. The upper left caption reads: “By God's will, after a long voyage from the island of Greenland to the south toward the most distant remaining parts of the western ocean sea, sailing southward amidst the ice, the companions Bjarni and Leif riksson discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines,. which island they named Vinland.” Most scholars and scientists who have studied the map have concluded that it is a fake, probably drawn on old parchment in the 20th century. {{ar|1=الأبعاد: 27.8 × 41.0 سم (10.9 × 16.1 بوصة) {يُقال إن خريطة/مخطط فينلاند هي خريطة موندي من القرن الخامس عشر، أعيد رسمها من نسخة أصلية من القرن الثالث عشر. تم رسمها بالحبر الأسود على جلد حيوان، وإذا كانت أصلية، فهي أول تصوير معروف لساحل أمريكا الشمالية، تم رسمها قبل رحلة كولومبوس عام 1492. يقرأ التعليق العلوي الأيسر: "بمشيئة الله، بعد رحلة طويلة من جزيرة جرينلاند إلى الجنوب نحو أب
- Date
- 2002
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Yale University Press
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,038 × 2,103 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: published in the US without a copyright notice (before 1978).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US no notice; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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