Une expérience malheureuse de la mer du Nord : des Vénitiens aux Lofoten (vers 1432)

• Main Author: Laget, Frédérique
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2019
• Subjects: Scandinavie; Groenland; Sibérie; histoire des représentations; Nord; stéréotype; monde nordique; History; HIS010000; HBJD; Lofoten; Røst
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/pur/117095

In November 1431, a Venetian ship travelling from the Mediterranean to Flanders veered off course and got lost in the North Sea, where it sank. The survivors drifted for weeks and eventually reached Røst, an island lying south of the Lofoten islands, without knowing where they were. They were then t...