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 ON SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MAPS 97 eenth century "Gronlandia/' 4 except that the rounded outline of Estotiland is not completed, its proportional area is greater than "Brazil," the strait between the two bodies of land is a little wider, and the lower end of Torfaeus' Greenland is not made concave like that of Ilia Verde. But again there can be FIG. 13 Coppo's world map of 1528 showing Green Island ("isola v'erde"). (After Kretschmer's hand-copied reproduction.) no doubt that the Ilia Verde of the Catalan (if he were a Catalan) represents the Greenland of Adam of Bremen and the sagas. GREEN ISLAND ON SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MAPS To the same origin, in a remoter sense, we may ascribe the rather large Insula Viridis of Schoner, I52O, 5 which is brought down to a latitude between that of southern Ireland and that of northern Spain and something east of mid-ocean. It must seem that the map-maker had quite lost sight of any relation between this Latinized Green Island and the true Greenland of the northwest. 4 Thormodus Torfaeus: Gronlandia Antiqua seu veteris Gronlandiae descriptio, Copenhagen, 1706; Tabula I, facing p. 20. 6 Kretschmer, atlas, PI. 13.