Old maps indicate Greenland was ice-free just 500 years ago

[JGeropoulas]

When you look at Greenland on Google Maps, it's completely flat - just white. No mountains, no terrain, nothing. But old maps from the 1500s and 1600s show something completely different.In this video, we're looking at historical maps that show Greenland with green land, channels, even trees. Maps from Mercator in 1570, Coronelli in 1592, and several others all show detailed terrain that doesn't exist on any modern mapping service. Scientists say the ice there is over a million years old, but these maps suggest otherwise.We'll also explore the mystery of an east-west canal that appears on multiple historical maps, the strange expedition route of Fridtjof Nansen in 1888, and what might be revealed as Greenland's ice continues to melt at record rates.

 

[axj]

Just saw the same video and it basically boils down to the question what those medieval maps were based on.

The channel through Greenland was likely based on an old Norwegian chronicle that Mercator and other cartographers mentioned as a source. Though the chronicle does not really talk about a channel crossing Greenland:

The Key Source: The "Historia Norwegiæ" (History of Norway)​

While not a saga in the traditional literary sense, this Latin chronicle (c. 1200-1300 AD) provides the most direct reference to a possible "channel." It states:

"Moreover, Greenland’s western region is traversed by a channel which is called ad montes ['to the mountains' or possibly a place-name]. It runs north under the icecaps (sub glacie)."

This is the closest any medieval Norse source comes to describing a channel cutting through Greenland.

It might have been a subglacial meltwater river exit they saw during the Medieval warm period.

 

[palestine]

Bumping this very interesting topic!

(The following came to mind: "Green" + "land")

Thank you @JGeropoulas for the video; I found it very interesting, especially in its aspects that have been discussing in many threads; it combines several of those:

• after/ during / before a cataclysmic event
• ice
• land masses

That is because many very important cosmic events have been reshaping our planet, so our conditions - and, meanwhile, we are bound to believe that it's all about "economy" & things. The author in the video provides the critical bit:

"Main stream scientists rely on the fact that big impacting events are framed in a million, if not billion, of years - timeframe. What we suspect is that it's merely a matter of centuries."

That would be the matter: people are not watching at the sky, because their world view implies that such "danger" (or "possibility") - is a matter of eons. Thus, we are not attaching enough importance to cosmic events as "factors". What remains? The factors are "economy", "political battles, wars. That would be what the world views factor in as elements susceptible of altering our experience & reality.

Well - cosmic events seem to be THE game changer overall.

@axj, out of curiosity, it seems that you have done some research on this topic - you end up with the info that the maps have been drawn by people who inspired themselves on the Norvegian text: can we confirm this? Namely, that the drawers exclusively rely on one text?

 

[mkrnhr]

Greenland was occupied during the medieval warm period. There are archaeological finds of farms that were buried by ice when the little ice age began. Greenland: Once a Viking paradise
The maps could be based on older maps and chronicles. They are not necessarily indicative of the geography at the exact moment they were drawn.

 

[palestine]

Greenland was occupied during the medieval warm period. There are archaeological finds of farms that were buried by ice when the little ice age began. Greenland: Once a Viking paradise
The maps could be based on older maps and chronicles. They are not necessarily indicative of the geography at the exact moment they were drawn.

One things that came to mind is that while the artist would be drawing the map, it would be a long process. It can be that when the artist started, the land was all-green, and then ice arrived. (It can be, too, that the drawing of maps were collective efforts, could be, spanning one century before finalization - not sure)