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

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Chekin, Leonid S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Svalbard; Greenland; Sami; Yugra; Conrad Celtis; Hieronymus Münzer; Pomponio Leto; Mauro Orbini; Arctic; Arctic Island; Arctic Ocean; Novaya Zemlya; sami; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4203; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4203

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...