From Norway Denmark Iceland Scotland England Bristol etc Wales Ireland Basques Others again more data by Gunnar Thompson On DeVirga s map the northwestern continent is called Norveca This title appearing under the symbol of a crown identifies the huge land as a province under the sovereignty of Norway Other maps also show a huge land attached to northern Norway On the 14th century Andreas Walsperger map the region is called Regnii Norwegie the realm of Norway maps by Sebastian Munster 1532 and Joachim Von Watt 1534 call the region Septentrio a circular map by Battista Agnese 1543 shows Terra Nova extending from Norway to the North Pole Maps that portray a huge northern territory reflect the 1261 proclamation of King Haakon IV extending Norse sovereignty over all the lands from Norway to the North Pole The North Pole he had in mind was the magneticnot the geographic pole A 14th century writer Philippe de Mezieres reported that Norway s overseas realm was so extensive that it took three years for the king s tax collectors to complete their rounds and return to Bergen One of the territories that Haakon annexed in a 1262 treaty along with Greenland and Iceland was an otherwise obscure place called landanu or New Land The Kongfriget Norges historie 1778 identified an Icelander named Rolf as the discoverer of this New Landalso known as Nyalandin 1258 It was also identified as part of the North American mainland Bishop Gissur Einarsson noted that the direction of sailing to Nyaland from Iceland was southwest In that direction lies Newfoundland and the Gulf of St Lawrence The region had many names that changed over the years as successive waves of Europeans landed on its shores As late as 1347 Icelanders referred to Newfoundland as Markland which was an ongoing source of lumber Sailors from Bristol called the coastal isles the Icelands Circa 1350 a Spanish Franciscan reported an isle called Ibernia in the northwest Atlantic that was under Norse sovereignty After that date Bubonic Plague swept through European cities devastating maritime centers Norway was particularly hard hitforcing the abandonment of overseas colonies English Portuguese French German and Danish merchants fought over the western isles After 1380 Denmark took control of Greenland Iceland and mainland in eastern Canada The new Danish mainland appears on the Claudius Clavus map of 1424 as Gronlandia Provincia Thus the name Norveca was already archaic by the early 15th century when it found its way onto DeVirga s map Portuguese maps of the early 16th century feature the names of Joao Fernandes The Labrador and the Corte Real family along the East Coast of North America Preceding unsigned comment added by 212 113 163 75 Gunnar Thompson has also published on Marco Polo s secret missions to Canada and the ancient Egyptian colonization of Mexico He has compiled an Extensive collection of evidence maps artifacts and cultural similarities of voyages to North America before Columbus by Phoenicians Norse Celts Britons Jews Greeks Irish Romans Japanese Hindus Indo Sumerians and Chinese Native Americans are the first discoverers occupying the Americas for at least 300 000 years from the Laura Lee radio show website He is as reliable a source as Gavin Menzies He has told me that the word hurricane comes from the ancient Greek Well the dear Dougweller can claim quite rightly in many cases that the relate of Marco Polo could be speculation however Gunnar Thompson cites the words of his own reporting and book book attributed to him Marco Polo as a documental source for these claims in the American Pacific coast as well as indirect sources more speculative on the several centuries later and even from his time world maps wich indicate where the lands designated by the Chinese and by the Venetian Dalmatian Explorer were Pedro Lisbon From California State University Fresno s Rehabilitation Counseling Program web page J Gunnar Thompson Ph D CRC was hired as a full time lecturer in the program beginning in the Fall semester 1987 Dr Thompson received a Master s Degree inRehabilitation Counseling a master s degree in Anthropology and his doctorate inRehabilitation Psychology from the University of Wisconsin Madison D