{"id":1791775,"date":"2021-09-29T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791775"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:05:13","slug":"the-vinland-map-and-modern-mythmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-and-modern-mythmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vinland Map and Modern Mythmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/medieval-map-of-north-america-identified-as-20th-century-forgery-180978751\/\">long <em>Smithsonian<\/em> article on the conclusion that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery<\/a>. Among other things, it places the map in the context of mythmaking around Viking history and an anti-Catholic, pro-northern-European narrative of American discovery that aimed to displace the Columbus story.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-is-a-fake\/\">\u2018The Vinland Map Is a Fake\u2019<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/re-analyzing-the-vinland-map\/\">Re-Analyzing the Vinland Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele\u2019s long Smithsonian article on the conclusion that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. Among other things, it places the map in the context of mythmaking around Viking&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-and-modern-mythmaking\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1112,281,1195],"class_list":["post-1791775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-forgeries","tag-hoaxes","tag-vinland-map","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791657,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-is-a-fake\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791775,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;The Vinland Map Is a Fake&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus has been for some time that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. A battery of non-destructive tests by Yale University, which holds the map in its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been performed on the map, and the results of those tests have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Vinland Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1785507,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/re-analyzing-the-vinland-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791775,"position":1},"title":"Re-Analyzing the Vinland Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus is that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery, not a pre-Columbian 15th-century map showing Norse explorations of North America. That doesn't seem to stop Yale University from continuing to study the map, which is held in Yale's\u00a0Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The map is being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1809343,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/10\/yales-work-on-map-forgeries\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791775,"position":2},"title":"Yale&#8217;s Work on Map Forgeries","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"As the keepers of the Vinland Map, the folks at Yale\u2019s Beinecke Library might be expected to have a few thoughts about map forgeries, seeing as the Vinland Map is arguably the best known example. In an article posted to the Beinecke Library website last July, Raymond Clemens discusses the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1808156,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/the-world-in-maps-new-exhibition-at-yales-beinecke-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791775,"position":3},"title":"The World in Maps: New Exhibition at Yale&#8217;s Beinecke Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 July 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"An exhibition at Yale University\u2019s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opens this Friday:\u00a0The World in Maps, 1400-1600. This exhibition presents many of the most historically significant manuscript maps from the late medieval and early modern period from the Beinecke Library\u2019s vast collection of maps. 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