{"id":4344,"date":"2016-11-20T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=4344"},"modified":"2016-11-20T23:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:46:04","slug":"svalbard-in-the-16th-18th-century-cartography-of-greenland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=4344&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"SVALBARD IN THE 16th\u201318th-CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY OF GREENLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Victor L. Derzhavin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Institute<\/em><em> of Archaeology RAS, Moscow (<a href=\"mailto:derzh@yandex.ru?subject=&quot;\u041f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u043e%20\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f&quot;\">derzh@yandex.ru<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Renaming of Spitzbergen to Svalbard in 1925 was underlain by political reasons: it was aimed at securing Norway\u2019s \u2018historical rights\u2019 to the archipelago. It was widely supported by Norwegian society though criti\u00adcized by the other European, especially Danish, researchers locating Svalbard in eastern Greenland. However, a series of Icelandic maps locating Svalbard or \u2018the Ice Shore\u2019 between latitude 68 and 72 degrees north made their appearance in Europe as early as in the 16th\u201318th centuries. Having compared cartographic materials with Icelandic sagas Icelandic cartographers drew the conclusion that the fabulous Svalbard was located on the eastern shore of Greenland and could not have anything to do with Spitzbergen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Greenland, Vikings, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Icelandic cartographers, Arctic conditions, sagas, ship.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor L. Derzhavin Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow (derzh@yandex.ru) Renaming of Spitzbergen to Svalbard in 1925 was underlain by political reasons: it was aimed at securing Norway\u2019s \u2018historical rights\u2019 to the archipelago. It was widely supported by Norwegian society though criti\u00adcized by the other European, especially Danish, researchers locating Svalbard in eastern Greenland. However, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4130,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4344\/revisions\/4345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}