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* ThePlace: Its extended title goes like this "Sea Map and Description of the Northern Countries and the Marvels Contained in Them".
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The ''Carta Marina'' has the merit of being the first fairly correct map of Scandinavia, and for a long time helped to shape the popular image of Scandinavia in the rest of Europe. The most salient feature of the map, however, is the gallery of blood-curdling [[SeaMonster sea-monsters]] that populate the map's North Atlantic. Descriptions and pictures of sea-monsters throughout the 16th and 17th century and beyond are frequently based on the ''Carta Marina''.
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The ''Carta Marina'' has the merit of being the first fairly correct map of Scandinavia, and for a long time helped to shape the popular image of Scandinavia in the rest of Europe. The most salient feature of the map, however, is the gallery of blood-curdling [[SeaMonster sea-monsters]] that populate the map's North Atlantic. Descriptions and pictures of sea-monsters sea monsters throughout the 16th and 17th century centuries and beyond are frequently based on the ''Carta Marina''.
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It draws heavily from Myth/NauticalFolklore and a little bit from Myth/NorseMythology.
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It draws heavily from Myth/NauticalFolklore and a little bit from Myth/NorseMythology.
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* MegaMaelstrom:
** There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible Charybdis").
** There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
** There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible Charybdis").
** There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
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* MegaMaelstrom:
**MegaMaelstrom: There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ''[-HEC EST HORRENDA CARIBDIS-]'' ("This is the horrible Charybdis").
**Charybdis"). There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
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* MonsterWhale: "Pristers", the monstrous whale-creatures typical of the time, are the most common sea monsters featured in the map. Examples include one large enough to have been mistaken for an island by sailors, and one -- specifically identified as a ''balena'', the Latin word for whale -- being attacked by an equally monstrous ''orca''.
* OceanOfAdventure: With giant monsters, mysterious islands, unexplored lands...
* OceanOfAdventure: With giant monsters, mysterious islands, unexplored lands...
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* MonsterWhale: "Pristers", the monstrous whale-creatures whale-like creatures typical of the time, are the most common sea monsters featured in on the map. Examples include one large enough to have been mistaken for an island by sailors, and one -- specifically identified as a ''balena'', "balena"', the Latin word for whale -- being attacked by an equally monstrous ''orca''.
* OceanOfAdventure:With giant monsters, According to this map, the North Atlantic Ocean is littered with mysterious islands, unexplored lands... lands, a MegaMaelstrom, and giant {{Sea Monster}}s of mythological origin. More southern seas are calmer, however.
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* SeaMonster: There is a sea-serpent, numerous types of gigantic whales, a merman, a marine unicorn, a sea-cow, a kind of giant seahorse, a giant lobster holding a man in his claws, a bizarre "sea-hog", a so-called "sea monk" and various other weird fishes or sea creatures. These monsters, notably, are only in the Atlantic Ocean proper -- the North and Baltic Seas are quite free of them -- due to the Renaissance concept that things grow more strange and monstrous as one heads away from Jerusalem.
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* SeaMonster: There is a sea-serpent, sea serpent, numerous types of gigantic whales, a merman, a marine unicorn, a sea-cow, sea cow, a kind of giant seahorse, a giant lobster holding a man in his claws, a bizarre "sea-hog", "sea hog", a so-called "sea monk" and various other weird fishes or sea creatures. These monsters, notably, are only in the Atlantic Ocean proper -- the North and Baltic Seas are quite free of them -- due to the Renaissance concept that things grow more strange and monstrous as one heads away from Jerusalem.
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* MegaMaelstrom: There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible Charybdis"). There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
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* MegaMaelstrom: MegaMaelstrom:
** There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horribleCharybdis"). Charybdis").
** There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
** There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible
** There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
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* InformedSpecies: Many of the sea monsters are meant to represent real animals-- various whales, a "sea-monk" based on a giant squid, and a "marine unicorn" that was in all probability inspired by a narwhal-- but look absolutely nothing like them from a modern perspective. It's understandable, though, given that the artist would only have known of these creatures from travelers' tales and had no idea what they actually looked like.
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* InformedSpecies: Many of the sea monsters are meant to represent real animals-- various animals--various whales, walruses (depicted with four clawed legs, a "sea-monk" based on a giant squid, fishtail, and upwards-pointing tusks), and a "marine unicorn" that was in all probability inspired by a narwhal-- but narwhal--but look absolutely nothing like them from a modern perspective. It's understandable, though, given that the artist would only have known of these creatures from travelers' tales and had no idea what they actually looked like. tales.
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* InformedSpecies: Many of the sea monsters are meant to represent real animals-- various whales, a "sea-monk" based on a giant squid, and a "marine unicorn" that was in all probability inspired by a narwhal-- but look absolutely nothing like them from a modern perspective. It's understandable, though, given that the artist would only have known of these creatures from travelers' tales and had no idea what they actually looked like.
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* MegaMaelstrom: There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible Charybdis"). There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down.
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* MegaMaelstrom: There is a large swirl in the sea amid the Lofoten islands, captioned [[AC:Hec est horrenda Caribdis]] ("This is the horrible Charybdis"). There is also a small ship in the middle of the maelstrom that is apparently just being sucked down. For bonus points, this would seem to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen the Maelstrom]] itself, the whirlpool that gives us the name.
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* MonsterWhale: "Pristers", the monstrous whale-creatures typical of the time, are the most common sea monsters featured in the map. Examples include one large enough to have been mistaken for an island by sailors, and one -- specifically identified as a ''balena'', the Latin word for whale -- being attacked by an equally monstrous ''orca''.
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* SeaSerpents: There's a large serpent off the coast of Norway in the act of coiling around an unfortunate ship. Olaus describes this creature as being 200 feet long and twenty thick, and as dwelling in the sea caves in the nearby coast. The most well-known print of the map colors the creature bright red. Its appearance is a [[PortentOfDoom bad omen]], and portends an imminent war or change in rulership.
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* HereThereBeDragons: One of the most notable historic examples of this trope. The map is lavishly decorated with wondrous scenes and creatures -- besides the famous sea monsters, Olaus Magnus included depictions of various unusual peoples, as well as a few land-bound monsters in norther Scandinavia, and added descriptions and warnings to various illustrations. All in all, there's barely an inch of the map that isn't home to some strange thing.
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* HereThereBeDragons: One of the most notable historic examples of this trope. The map is lavishly decorated with wondrous scenes and creatures -- besides the famous sea monsters, Olaus Magnus included depictions of various unusual peoples, as well as a few land-bound monsters in norther northern Scandinavia, and added descriptions and warnings to various illustrations. All in all, there's barely an inch of the map that isn't home to some strange thing.
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The ''Carta Marina'' was created by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), a learned and widely travelled Catholic UsefulNotes/{{Swed|en}}ish dignitary who lived in Italy after Sweden had joined the Protestant Reformation. The original was printed in an extremely limited edition of nine copies, so as to increase its value. Only two of these survive today (located in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} and Stockholm respectively), although a scaled-down replica was produced in 1572, of which several copies survive. The original map was not colored, and none of the two remaining specimens is.
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The ''Carta Marina'' was created by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), a learned and widely travelled Catholic UsefulNotes/{{Swed|en}}ish dignitary who lived in moved to Italy after Sweden had joined the Protestant Reformation. The original was printed in an extremely limited edition of nine copies, so as to increase its value. Only two of these survive today (located in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} and Stockholm respectively), although a scaled-down replica was produced in 1572, of which several copies survive. The original map was not colored, and none of the two remaining specimens is.
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* HereThereBeDragons: One of the most notable historic examples of this trope. The map is lavishly decorated with wondrous scenes and creatures -- besides the famous sea monsters, Olaus Magnus included depictions of various unusual peoples, as well as a few land-bound monsters in norther Scandinavia, and added descriptions and warnings to various illustrations. All in all, there's barely an inch of the map that isn't home to some strange thing.
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