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 140 THE ISLANDS OF ZENO As Nicold Zeno followed the disciples of Claudius Clavus in outlining Greenland, so he took for his guide Mattheus Prunes' map of I553 17 in dealing with the more eastern islands. Po- danda or Porlanda (Pomona, the main island of the Orkneys) and Neome (Fair Island) are in both (Figs. 19 and 12). Prunes dis- places these islands to a position west, instead of south, of south- ern Shetland (Estiland or Esthlanda), and Zeno simply canies them both still farther west, while moving them southward; but his Neome is still in the latitude of the lower end of Shetland. Long before the time of either of them, the Faroe Islands had been shown as one territory see the Ysferi (Faroe Islands) of the eleventh-century map of the Cottonian MS. in the British Museum, reproduced by Santarem. 18 The main islands are in fact barely severed from each other by a thread of water. FRISLAND It was, and is, so common to use "land" as a final syllable for island names (witness Iceland, Shetland, and the rest) that "Ferisland" would easily be derived from the form of the name last given and would be as readily contracted into "Frisland." We find the latter (Frislanda), indeed, on the map of Cantino (i5O2) 19 and in the life of Columbus ascribed to his son Ferdi- nand. 20 There seems no doubt of its very early use for a northern island or islands; apparently primarily for the Faroe group, often blended as one island. 17 Kretschmer, atlas, PI. 4, map 5- 18 [M. F.J Santarem: Atlas compose de mappemondes, de portulans, et de cartes hydrographiques et historiques depuis le Vie jusqu'au XVII e sifecle. . . devant servir de preuves a 1'histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographic pendant le Moyen Age .... Paris, 1842-53, PI. 9 (Quaritch's notation). " E. L. Stevenson: Maps Illustrating Early Discovery and Exploration in America, 1502-1530, Reproduced by Photography from the Original Manuscripts, text and 12 portfolios, New Brunswick, N. J., 1906; reference in Portfolio i. 20 Ferdinand Columbus: The History of the Life and Actions of Adm. Christopher Columbus, and of His Discovery of the West-Indies, Call'd the New World, Now in Possession of His Catholic Majesty. Written by His Own Son.transl. from the Ital- ian and contained in "A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English," by Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill (6 vols., London, 1732), Vol. 2, pp. 501- 628; reference on p. 507.