The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland

An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the understudied Icelandic mappae mundi . The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn between c. 1225 and c. 1400, are contemporary with the breathtaking rise of its vernacular literary culture, and provide important insights into the Icelanders' capacious geographical awareness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. However, in comparison with those drawn elsewhere, among them the English Hereford mappa mundi , they have received littl