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It is now generally accepted that Leif Eiriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information (much of it in Scandinavian languages that are a bar to most Western historians), this book confronts many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings together two distinct but tangential fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connection with the Norse discovery of North America, and fifteenth-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot.

Greenland --- North America --- Groenland --- Amérique du Nord --- Discovery and exploration --- Norse --- Découverte et exploration norvégiennes --- Greenland - Discovery and exploration - Norse. --- North America - Discovery and exploration - Norse. --- Colonisation --- Discovery and exploration, Norse. --- Entdeckung. --- Exploratie. --- Geography, Medieval. --- Géographie médiévale. --- Navires médiévaux. --- Ontdekkingsreizen. --- Ships, Medieval. --- Siedlung. --- Travel, Medieval. --- Voyage --- Établissements humains --- Histoire --- Geschichte 1000-1500. --- Amérique du Nord --- Atlantique Nord (région) --- Greenland. --- Grönland. --- Nordamerika. --- North America. --- Vinland. --- Découverte et exploration nordiques. --- Découverte et exploration --- Découverte et exploration. --- Norse. --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques

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The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. 'Maps, myths, and men' is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book offers a critique of the 1965 work 'The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation'; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map which demonstrate that the map is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. It explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and applies current knowledge of medieval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.