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    Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is...
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    kraken, various sea-monsters were illustrated on his famous map, the Carta marina (1539). Modern writers have since tried to interpret various sea creatures...
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    Waldseemüller's Carta marina navigatoria (1522), revised by Laurentius Fries, has the morsus moved to the Davis Strait. Bishop Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina map of...
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  • (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 63. Carta Marina James Bell Ford Library, Minnesota Carta Marina satellite images The Plymouth Marine Laboratory...
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    at the Library of Congress Carta Marina of 1516, Speaker: Chet Van Duzer Video from the Library of Congress Carta Marina of 1516, digital copy at the...
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    Moskstraumen into his detailed report on the Nordic countries and their map, Carta Marina (1539). He attributed the whirlpool to divine forces and mentioned that...
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    Part of the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as "Insula Magnetu[m]" (Latin for "Island...
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    Saami, and morse in French. Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the Carta Marina in 1539, first referred to the walrus as the ros marus, probably a Latinization...
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  • Carta marina showing Finnish economy, with the captions Hic fabricantur naves and Hic fabricantur bombarde abbreviated...
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    The maelstrom off Norway as illustrated by Olaus Magnus on the Carta Marina, 1539....
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    cartographer Olaus Magnus located Bjarmaland in the Kola Peninsula in his Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (1539), while Swedish humanist...
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    Plate c. 1544 depicting various sea monsters; compiled from the Carta marina....
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    any physical similarities to the pig. The creatures appeared in the Carta marina, and were depicted in accompanying wood carvings, as fantastical beasts...
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  • June 14, 2021. Casarosa, Enrico [@sketchcrawl] (June 26, 2021). "The Carta Marina inspired our map ... We called the island in our movie Isola del Mare...
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    Thule On the Ocean location Thule as Tile on the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, where it is shown located to the northwest of the Orkney islands...
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  • Magician The Maine Maite Perroni Manowar Maraaya Marcelo Falcão Marco Carta Marina and the Diamonds Mark Ronson (2003-2007) Marshmello (Via Spinnin' Records)...
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    around Sweden, no reliable map had hitherto been made of the country; the Carta marina made by Olaus Magnus in 1539 was geographically inaccurate (though ethnographically...
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    serpents and other various marine monsters on his illustrated map, the Carta marina. In his 1555 work History of the Northern Peoples, Olaus gives the following...
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    Danish). Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag. p. 138. ISBN 87-567-1143-3. Carta Marina features the coat of arms. Stål, Harry (1976), Ortnamn och ortnamnsforskning...
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    Possibly the earliest depictions of a polar bear on a map is the Swedish Carta marina of 1539, which has a white bear on Iceland or "Islandia". A 1544 map...
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    fishing otter. One of the motifs of Magnus's 1539 map of Scandinavia, Carta marina, is an otter fetching a fish for its master, who is ready with a knife...
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    Žaltys and the Holy Fire are depicted in Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina, above the inscription LITVANIE PARS...
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    rebranded into Swedbank. Europe in 1097 Europe in 1430 Europe in 1470 Carta marina of the Baltic Sea region (1539) In the Patrician series of trading simulation...
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    Part of the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as "Insula Magnetū[m]" (Latin for "Island...
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    currents. The first reasonably reliable map of northern Europe, the Carta marina of 1539, represents the Norwegian Sea as coastal waters and shows nothing...
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    centuries Russia and Moscovia 1507 Planisphere by Johannes Ruysch 1539 Carta marina Olaus Magnus Moscovia, Russia on territory of Ukraine. 1587 Planisphere...
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  • dynasty Chinese map) Maps of Russia Godunov map (1667) Maps of Scandinavia Carta marina (c. 1530) Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784) French cartography:...
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    Mustsåår in 1530. Olaus Magnus spelled it as Mostesar in his 1539 map, Carta Marina, where the castle appeared separately as "Korsholm". In 1606–1611, it...
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    The Carta Marina from 1539 by Olaus Magnus....
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    Transcription, Translation, and Commentary - Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcription of the Long Legends, Springer International...
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