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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) is the earliest detailed map of the Nordic countries. It took twelve years to finish. The first copies were printed in 1539 in Venice. Its existence had long been considered apocryphal, until a copy was discovered in Munich in 1886. Another copy, found in Switzerland in 1962, now resides at Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala, Sweden.

The map is divided in 3×3 sheets with the dimension 55x40 cm (height×width), each made from a separate woodcut block. The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus himself into the Italian and German language. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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current21:40, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 21:40, 4 January 20175,016 × 3,715 (5.22 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina" class="extiw" title="w:Carta marina">Carta marina</a>, a wallmap of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" class="extiw" title="w:Scandinavia">w:Scandinavia</a>, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaus_Magnus" class="extiw" title="w:Olaus Magnus">Olaus Magnus</a>. The caption reads : <i>Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through the generous assistance of the Most Honourable Lord Hieronymo Quirino</i>.
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