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The Sagas |
The
Vineland Map |
L'Anse Aux Meadows
| What Happened
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| The Vineland map claims to be a
map created, about 80 years before Columbus sailed for Cathy, from the
Viking explorations of the North Atlantic. The debate over the authenticity
of this map has been an interesting one and if in fact it is a forgery then
it is one which has resisted all attempts to prove it a fake. It is in fact
one of the great milestones in exploration and stands as a very importnat
historic document. The map was first uncovered in 1965 and published by,
Skelton et al. The Vinland Map and Tartar Relation. In 1972, a
scientific team headed by Dr. Walter McCrone reported that its ink contained
anatase, a form of titanium which first appeared in ink during the 1920s.
Twenty years later, in 1992, Dr. Thomas Cahill of UC Davis found anatase in
a variety of medieval manuscripts and the question was reopened. In 1995
Yale released a second edition of the book, together with further articles
in support of the map, even as scholarly opinion outside of Yale
increasingly turned against it. Most recently, two studies, one on the
parchment and another on the ink, seemed to many to point in different
directions. |
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