“Now I will give the land a name, and call it Helluland,” he says in the text. Translated from Old Norse, the name means ...
such as Helluland and Markland. The Yale team that declared the map authentic in the 1960s believed it was written in the same hand as the Tartar Relation and Speculum Historiale, but others don't ...
Helluland, and Vinland. But this interest in the sagas only took off during the 16th and 17th centuries—long after the purported mid-15th-century date of the Vinland Map. Beginning around 1570 ...