A Russian discovery in the Arctic ocean at the time of Columbus

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Leonid S. Chekin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Svalbard; Greenland; Sami; Yugra; Conrad Celtis; Hieronymus Münzer; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Arctic; Arctic Island; Arctic Ocean; Novaya Zemlya; sami; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4203; https://doaj.org/article/dcff8e30533a401d888bfbec578f01ed

In the last decades of the fifteenth century, at least three texts by Italian and German humanists included reports on an Arctic island newly discovered by the Russians. Modern Russian scholarship variously identifies this island as Spitsbergen (meaning a part or even the whole archipelago presently...