The
Viking Deception

Sic Transit
Gloria Mundi

documentary

Christopher Columbus and the Great Age of Discovery
HIST 351  ~  Fall 2010

1. Under what circumstances did the Vinland Map first appear?

2. What was a Saga?

3. What was the evidence for a Norse discovery of America at the time the Vinland Map first appeared?

4. What was the role of wormholes in helping to authenticate the Vinland Map?

5. What was the role of Paul Mellon in bringing the Vinland Map to Yale University?

6. What were the characteristics and circumstances of the Vinland Map that aroused doubts about its authenticity?

7. What were the scientific tests that were applied to the Vinland Map’s ink, what were their results, and what conflicts did they arouse?

8. How does Enzo Ferrajoli figure in the story of the Vinland Map?

9. How does Father Josef Fischer figure in the story of the Vinland Map?
 

For more information on the Vinland Map see:

Kirsten Seaver. Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map (2004).

R. A. Skelton, Thomas Marston, and George D. Painter. The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (1965, new edition with additional material, 1995).