Wind Diagrams in Medieval Iceland
This article presents a study of the sole wind diagram that survives from medieval Iceland, preserved in the encyclopaedic miscellany in Copenhagen's Arnamagnæan Institute with the shelf mark AM 732b 4to (c. 1300-25). It examines the wind diagram and its accompanying text, an excerpt on the win...
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| Format: | Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/5cabb60e-fdad-4d8a-ad5e-ba0f5ee27947 http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications/quaestio/Quaestio2014.html |
| Summary: | This article presents a study of the sole wind diagram that survives from medieval Iceland, preserved in the encyclopaedic miscellany in Copenhagen's Arnamagnæan Institute with the shelf mark AM 732b 4to (c. 1300-25). It examines the wind diagram and its accompanying text, an excerpt on the winds from Isidore of Seville's Etymologies. It also examines the perimeter of winds on two medieval Icelandic world maps, and the visual traditions from which they draw. |
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