MAPS OF HISTORY · NORSE AND AZTECS · MAPS BY YEAR · 1500Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521 · THE MAP AROUND c. 1500
Map of the Norse North Atlantic around 1500
Inuit Greenland; Orkney and Shetland to Scotland
The Norse North Atlantic around 1500: Inuit Greenland; Orkney and Shetland to Scotland. Since 1450, 2 territories changed status on this map: The Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð) and Orkney & Shetland — the Northern Isles.
c. 1500 · CLIMATE AND INNOVATION: THE NORSE AND THE AZTECS, C. 790–1521 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Greenland National Museum: Anavik archaeological survey, p.11 · Norse Eastern Settlement: named farm distribution · GeoNames geographic controls · Ogilvie et al.2009: seals and sea ice in Norse Greenland · UNESCO: Kujataa archaeological landscape · Natural Earth v5.1.2 full geographic reference · Ljungqvist 2005: Norðrsetur and Disko Bay hunting · Hollesen et al.2016: Sandnes site coordinates · Sámi Parliament: the Sápmi homeland · Friesen and Arnold 2008: timing of the Thule migration · Parks Canada: L’Anse aux Meadows and the Vinland sagas · Norse Western Settlement: farm distribution
Source details Greenland National Museum: Anavik archaeological survey, p.11. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Masae, based on Arneborg, Gulløv and Guðmundsson. CC BY-SA 3.0 GeoNames contributors. CC BY 4.0 Ogilvie et al.2009: seals and sea ice in Norse Greenland. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced UNESCO: Kujataa archaeological landscape. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Natural Earth contributors. Public domain Ljungqvist 2005: Norðrsetur and Disko Bay hunting. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Jørgen Hollesen and coauthors. CC BY 4.0 Sámi Parliament: the Sápmi homeland. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Friesen and Arnold 2008: timing of the Thule migration. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Parks Canada: L’Anse aux Meadows and the Vinland sagas. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Masae, based on Arneborg, Gulløv and Guðmundsson. CC BY-SA 3.0 These maps are reconstructed from published sources. The layer record provides the source geometry, registration controls, reference dates and derivatives.
This map concerns settlement, voyages and the environment. Its geographic study regions are not all medieval state borders. Modern continental borders are dissolved, while the dated Danelaw and Normandy sources retain their historical meaning.
Greenland settlement references come from published farm distributions. The ice bands, coastal migration bands and voyage ranges are explanatory regions rather than measured medieval boundaries. The erroneous Cliopatria eastern Greenland placement was rejected.
proxy: Published geographic reference; not a medieval administrative survey · reconstruction: Ice exposure near north Iceland · reconstruction: Norse settlement distribution, c.985–1450 · reconstruction: Source-described ice exposure; explanatory band · reconstruction: Thule archaeological distribution stage; dates are broad narrative references · reconstruction: Traditional Sápmi regional reference
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What changes on the map The Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð) Abandoned Norse settlement → Indigenous peoples of the North Orkney & Shetland — the Northern Isles Norse-ruled overseas lands → Other peoples and states
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