The Vinland Map is a 20th-century forgery purporting to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America. The map first came to light in 1957 and was acquired by Yale University.

Sep 27, 2021 · Acquired by Yale University and publicized to great fanfare in 1965, the Vinland Map —supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly presenting...

Feb 26, 2024 · Unravel the mystery of the Vinland Map—a controversial document that claimed Vikings arrived in North America before Columbus. Discover the truth now.

Sep 1, 2021 · The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for this conclusion through the most thorough analysis yet performed on the infamous parchment map.

Oct 4, 2021 · The so-called oldest map of North America — the Vinland Map — sits in Yale’s Beinecke collection in a slim volume along with a medieval manuscript. The map purports to show groundbreaking conclusions about Norse exploration into North America, with one glaring caveat: it’s …

Mar 26, 2025 · Manuscript on parchment of an outline map of Europe, Africa, Asia, the surrounding seas and the islands including Iceland, Greenland, and "Vinland," which resembles the coastline of northern North America, with identifying legends.

The Vinland Map (VM) was first revealed to the world in 1965 with the appearance of a book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, by Skelton, Marston, and Painter. The map, an unassuming pen and ink rendering, is a world map on 27.8 x 40 cm parchment folded in two leaves.

Feb 8, 2005 · Is the Vinland Map, which depicts Viking forays to North America, a priceless document made before Columbia's voyage to the New World, or is it a brilliant 20th-century forgery?

The History of the Vinland Map. The Vinland Map’s origin is uncertain, first appearing in 1957 with Enzo Ferrajoli de Ry, who later faced charges for stealing manuscripts. The British Museum declined it, suspecting forgery. Ferrajoli sold it to Laurence Witten, who brought it to Yale.

The controversial Vinland Map (VM) is a medieval-style map of the Old World that includes a large island in the western Atlantic identified as "Vinilanda Insula", the Vinland of the Icelandic sagas. It came to light in the 1950s, bound together with a slender and then otherwise unknown tract dating to about 1440, entitled the Tartar Relation (TR).