page_title: Skálholt
section_title: Skálholt map
hierarchical_section_title: Skálholt / Skálholt map
caption_attribution_description: English: The Skálholt-map made by the icelandic teacher Sigurd Stefansson in the year 1570. Description Greenlands from Bjørn Jonsen of Skarsaa in Iceland from the year 1669, latin by Theodor Thorlac. Note: Helleland ('Stone Land'=Baffin island) Markland ('forest land'=Labrador) Skrælinge Land ('land of the savages'=Labrador) Promontorium Vinlandiæ (the promontory/cape of Vinland=Newfoundland) Deutsch: Die Skálholt-Karte des isländischen Lehrers Sigurd Stefánsson aus dem Jahr 1570. Mit einer Beschreibung Grönlands von Björn Jonsen, lateinisch von Theodor Thorlac - beide Isländer - im Jahre 1669 فارسی: نقشه‌ای که آموزگار ایسلندی سیگورد استفانسون در سال ۱۵۷۰ در دهکده اسکالهولت ایسلند ترسیم کرده‌است. مناطق پایین‌تر از گرینلند در آن به ترتیب این‌گونه نامیده شده‌اند: هلولند (سرزمین تخته‌سنگ‌ها - جزیره بافین)، مارکلند (سرزمین پردرخت - لابرادور)، اسکارلینگه‌لند (سرزمین بومیان وحشی - لابرادور)، و سنگپوز وینلند (نیوفاندلند).
context_page_description: Skálholt is a historical site in the south of Iceland, at the river Hvítá.
context_section_description: In the late 16th century Sigurður Stefánsson, a young teacher from Skálholt and grandson of a Skálholt bishop, used the available documentary evidence to mark the sites of the ancient Norse discoveries in the western Atlantic, including Vinland, on a map. After studying at the University of Copenhagen, Sigurður became a teacher at the former monastery of Skálholt, which remained the religious and educational centre in Iceland even after Protestantism was introduced in 1551.
  The 1570 original of Sigurður's Map no longer survives, but a copy was made in 1690 by Þórður Þorláksson (also known by his Latinized name, Thorlacius), the Bishop of Skálholt, and is now in the collection of the Danish Royal Library. Numerous other copies were made by Scandinavian scholars. By matching latitudes with the British Isles, the map shows the northern tip of "Vinland" as being at about 51 degrees north, the same latitude as the southern tip of Ireland and Bristol, England. When this information was transferred to more modern maps, it indicated, among other things, that Sigurður had marked the promontory of Vinland at the same position as the northern promontory of Newfoundland, which was one of the factors that encouraged successful archaeological investigations by Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad in the 1960s at L'Anse aux Meadows, which is located at 51°35′47″N 55°32′00″W.
caption: The 1690 Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in North America[1]:
   * Land of the Risi (a mythical location)
   * Greenland
   * Helluland (Baffin Island)
   * Markland (the Labrador Peninsula)
   * Land of the Skrælingjar (location undetermined)
   * Promontory of Vinland (the Great Northern Peninsula)
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