intermarriage
Inuit, see individual Inuit peoples
Inventio Fortunatae
Ireland, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
iron
Iroquois
Isaksen, Jógvan
Islanda, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
monastery on, 5.1, 5.2
Isolario (Bordone), 6.1, 7.1
Italian prisoners of war
Italy, Fascist
Jacobsens Bookstore
Jamaica
Jerusalem, pilgrimages to
John V Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor
Jónsson, Abbott Brandur
Julius II, Pope
Katla, Mount, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
kayaks
Kirkjubaer
Kirkjubur, 3.1, 3.2
Kirkjubur, bishop of, 3.1, 3.2
Kirkwall, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Koltur
Krarup, Father
Kremer, Gerhard, see Mercator, Gerard
Kremer, Hubert
Kristjánsdóttir, Steinunn
Labrador, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
Lamb Holm
Lange, Hans
L’Anse aux Meadows
Larsen, Jens
Latin language
League of Cambrai
Ledovo
Leif the Lucky
Leo Africanus (al Hasan ben Mohammad al Wazzan az Zayati; Giovanni Leone)
Leo X, Pope
Lerwick
Le Sorti … (Marcolini), 1.1, 1.2
Lilja (Ásgrímsson)
linguafranca
Little Ice Age
Lives of the Artists (Vasari)
Loftsson, Jón
Lok, Michael, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
London
London Journal 9.1
Low Countries
Lucas, Frederick W., 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Lutherans
Maconochie, Alexander
Magnus, Olaus
Magnus the Good, king of Noregsveldi
Magnússon, Árni
Mainland Island, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1
Major, Richard Henry, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Manutius, Aldus, 1.1, 1.2
maps, mapmaking, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
see also Mercator, Gerard; Zen map
Marcolini, Francesco, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 3.1
and Aretino
as careless editor, 1.1, 1.2
disappearance of
print shop of
as publisher of Zen narrative, 1.1, 1.2
Marcolini, Francesco (continued)
publishing career of, 1.1
rift between Nicolò the Younger and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Marcolini, Isabella, 1.1, 1.2
Margaret, queen of Norway, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
Marie
Marignano, battle of
Markussen, Inga Dora
Martyr, Peter
Matthew
Mayans
Meldolla, Andrea
“Mémoire sur l’isle de Frislande” (Buache)
Mendoza, Don Juan Hurtado de
Mercator, Gerard, prl.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Mercator’s projection
Messer Nicolò, see Zen, Nicolò
Meta Incognita, 8.1, 8.2
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Michael, 8.1, 8.2
Micmacs
Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Icelandic
Minos, king of Crete
monasteries, monks, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
of Iceland, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
see also specific monasteries and religious orders
monastery on Islanda, 5.1, 5.2
Morocco
Morosini, Michele
Murano island
Museo Correr
Mýrdal Glacier, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Mýrdalssandur, 5.1, 5.2
mythology, Greek
Napoleonic Wars, 9.1, 9.2
National Archives (Faroes)
National Library (Faroes)
navigational hazards, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 8.2
navigational instruments
Navigationi et viaggi (Ramusio)
Nelson, Lord
Neolithic age
Neome
New England, 4.1, 6.1
Newfoundland, prl.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
New Orkney Antiquarian Journal
New World, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1
Mercator’s map of
Njál’s Saga, 5.1, 5.2
Norðadalur
Nordic thrillers
Noregsveldi
Norse
possible settlement of North America by, 6.1, 9.1
settlement of Greenland by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
see also Norway; Vikings
North American coast, prl.1, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1
England’s imperial claim to, 8.1, 8.2
possible landing on
possible Norse settlement of
North American Review, The
North Atlantic, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1
trade in, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
North Pole
North Sea, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1
Northwest Passage, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Norway, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
and Scotland, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Nova Scotia, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Nugssuaq Peninsula, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Nunez, Pedro
Nuuk, 7.1, 7.2
Ocibar
Odin
Olaf, Saint
Orcades
Orkney Islands, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2
author’s visit to
early settlement of
as possible location of Frislanda
topography of
Orkney whiskey
Orphir
Ortelius, Abraham
Ottoman Empire, wars with, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 8.1
Ovid
Pacific Ocean, northwest passage to, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Padoan, Giorgio, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Padua, University of
paganism
palaces, 1.1, 1.2
Palazzo Zen (Zen family home), prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
author’s visit to
frieze on
plaque on, prl.1, prl.2, 8.1, 9.1
Patursson, Guðrið, 3.1, 3.2
Patursson, Jóannes, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Patursson, Ròkur
Paul, Tom, prl.1, 9.1
Pescia, Pompeo della Barba di
pharmaceuticals
Philip II, king of Spain
Picts, 4.1, 4.2
Pinkerton, John, 9.1, 9.2
Pisani, Vettor
pit furnace
Plantin, Christophe
Pohl, Frederick, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1
polar region
Polo, Marco
Pontanus
Porlanda, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Portugal, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
pottbraud
Preveza
Prince Henry Sinclair Society of North America
printer’s marks, prl.1, prl.2
printing press
Prunes, Matteo, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
publishing industry
on Faroes
Venetian, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
see also Marcolini, Francesco
Pujortoq (smoky mountain), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
pygmies
Pytheas of Marseille
Rafn, Carl Christian
Ragnheid (sister of Thorlak)
Raleigh, Walter
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 8.2
death of, 1.1, 1.2
editorial policy of
and Zen narrative, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Ramusio, Paolo
readers
Reformation, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1
religious intolerance
renovatio, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Rerum danicarum historia (Pontanus)
Resolution
Reykjavik, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Riformatori dello Studio di Padova
River of the Amazons
Rodebaye
roost
Rosslyn Castle, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Rosslyn Chapel
Royal Geographical Society, prl.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Ruscelli, Girolamo
Ruskin, Effie
Ruskin, John
Sabo, Deborah
Saga of Erik the Red, The
sagas, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Sagas, Age of the
Saint Magnus, cathedral of
Saint Magnus, church of, 3.1, 3.2
Saint Olaf, church of, 4.1, 4.2
Sandoy
Sandur
Sanestol, 3.1, 3.2
Sansovino, Jacopo
Saqqaq harbor, 7.1, 7.2
Saqqaq Inuit
Sarpellon, Giovanni
Scandinavia, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
Scapa Flow
Schutz, Jonas
Scivoli, Silverio (Silver), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Scotland, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1
and Norway, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Sebastiano del Piombo
Serlio, Sebastiano
Sforza, Caterina
sheep
Shelleken, Barbara
Shetland Islands, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Siggens, Henry de
Sinclair, David
Sinclair, Elizabeth
Sinclair, Henry, II
Sinclair, Henry, earl of Orkney, lord of Rosslyn, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
and Antonio Zen, 4.1, 9.1
in conflict with Bishop William
in conflict with Malise Sperra, 4.1, 6.1
in early exploration of North America
Niven Sinclair as apologist for, 4.1, 4.2
as possible identity of Zichmni, 4.1, 4.2
see also Zichmni, prince, lord of Sorant
Sinclair, Isabella Sperra, 4.1, 6.1
Sinclair, Niven, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1
Sinclair, William (father)
Sinclair, William (grandson), 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Sinclair castle
Skálholt, bishop of
Skógar
Thordur’s museum at
skrælings (Thule Inuit), 7.1, 7.2
sled dogs
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Brian, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
smoky mountain (Pujortoq), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Smyril Line
soccer
Sonetti Lussuriosi (Aretino)
Soranzo, Remigio
Spain, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Spanish Armada
Sperra, Ivan
Sperra, Malise, earl of Orkney (Sinclair’s grandfather)
Sperra, Malise, Lord Scaldale (Sinclair’s cousin), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
Sperra, Matilda
spice trade, 2.1, 2.2
State Archives of Venice
S. Tomas Zenobium, monastery of
Streymoy, 3.1, 3.2
Sublime Porte
Sudero, Gulf of, 3.1, 3.2
Suleiman the Magnificent
Sutheroy Fjord, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
Sutheroy Island
Sverre Sigurdsson, king of Norway
Sverre’s Saga
Tchichus
Tenedos
Thikkvabaejarklaustur monastery, 5.1, 5.2
Thomas, Saint
Thomson, Mrs.
Thomson, Willie
Thor, 3.1, 5.1
Thorhallsson, Thorlak, bishop of Skálholt (Saint Thorlacius), 5.1, 5.2
Thorlak’s Saga
Thorleifsen, Daniel
Thorstensson, Klaengur, bishop of Skálholt
Thrasi
Thule, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Thule Inuit (skrælings), 7.1, 7.2
Tingwall
Tintoretto, prl.1, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Titian, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2
Tomasson, Thordur, 5.1, 5.2
Tordesillas, Treaty of
Tórshavn, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2
trade commodities
travel narratives, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1
see also Leo Africanus; Zen narrative (Dello scoprimento …)
Trondheim, archbishop of, 5.1, 6.1
Ulloa, Alfonso de
Uncle Gisbert (Mercator’s guardian)
Urban IV, Pope
Uzun Hasan, king of Persia, 1.1, 8.1
Vágar, 3.1, 3.2
Valdivia, Juan de
Vargas, Francisco de
Vasari, Giorgio, 1.1, 1.2
Venetian Republic
Arsenal of
decline of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
expansionism of, 1.1, 1.2
fleet of
mercantilism of, 1.1, 1.2
publishing industry in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
16th-century renewal of, 1.1, 1.2
in trade with Flanders, 2.1, 2.2
wars of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; see also Venice-Genoa war
Venice-Genoa war, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1
Veritas filia temporis, prl.1, prl.2
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1
Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy
Vikings, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1
Vitalian Freebooters
volcanoes, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 7.1
Voyages of the Venetian Brothers … (Major)
Walsingham, Francis, 8.1, 8.2
Ward Hill
Warwick, Lord, 8.1, 8.2
West England
Wichmannus
William, Bishop, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Wills, Jonathan
Wills, Leslie
world map, of Mercator, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
World War, II, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Zahrtmann, Christian, prl.1, 9.1
as refuted by Major
Zen, Agnese Dandolo
Zen, Andreola Contarini
Zen, Antonio, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
adventurous spirit of, 6.1, 7.1
book of, 7.1, 8.1
confusion over identity of
continuing bloodline of
death of
and fisherman’s tale, 6.1, 6.2
on Greenland, 7.1, 7.2
letters of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
marriage of
voyage to North America of, 4.1, 6.1
in Zichmni’s military missions, 6.1, 6.2
Zen, Antonio (cousin)
Zen, Antonio (son of Messer Nicolò), 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1
Zen, Carlo, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
bribery accusation against
death of
in Venice-Genoa war, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1
as war hero
Zen, Caterino (father of Nicolò the Younger), 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Caterino (grandson of Antonio), 1.1, 8.1
Zen, Caterino (son of Nicolò the Younger)
Zen, Chiara, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1
Zen, Elena
Zen, Elisabetta Contarini, 1.1, 8.1
Zen, Fantina Muazzo, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Francesco, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Gabriella Querini
Zen, Giovambattista, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Giovanni, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Nicoletta, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Zen, Nicolò (Messer Nicolò), prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
adventurous and independent spirit of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1
alleged death of
as character in Adventus Domini
children of, 2.1, 2.2
death of
early military career of
early years of
financial misconduct of, 6.1, 8.1
in
Islanda, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
knighting of, 3.1, 4.1
marriage of
prose style of, 5.1, 5.2
in public service, 6.1, 8.1
return to Venice
as trader, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1
trial and conviction of
in Venice-Genoa war, 2.1, 2.2
voyage of, see Zen narrative (Dello scoprimento …)
wealth of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 6.1
in Zichmni’s military missions, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
Zen, Nicolò (the Younger), prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
children of
classical education of, 1.1, 1.2
death of
as descendant of Antonio Zen
discredited as forger, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
as historian, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 8.1
as humanist
as hydraulic engineer, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
marriage of
mistakes and inconsistencies of, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
as moralist, 1.1, 1.2
narrative style of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
political career of, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 8.1
and pride in Venice, 6.1
and publication of Zen narrative, 1.1, 8.1
recounting of fisherman’s tale by, 6.1, 6.2
rift between Marcolini and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
on Zen voyage, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
see also Zen map; Zen narrative (Dello scoprimento …)
Zen, Ottaviano
Zen, Pietro (Dragone, the Dragon, son of Antonio), 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Zen, Pietro (grandfather of Nicolò the Younger), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Zen, Pietro (great-grandson of Antonio), 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Pietro (the Dragon, father of Messer Nicolò), 2.1, 8.1
Zen, Raniero
Zen, Tommaso, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Zen, Vincenzo (brother of Nicolò the Younger)
Zen, Vincenzo (uncle of Nicolò the Younger), 8.1, 8.2
Zen crest
Zen family, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
confusion of names within
as merchants, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Zeni, Nicolaus and Anthonius
Zen map, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1
used by Mercator, prl.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Zen narrative (Dello scoprimento …) (Nicolò the Younger), prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1
in Adventus Domini, 3.1
apologists for, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
author’s initial interest in, prl.1
Dee’s use of
discredited as forgery, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 9.2
editing of
fisherman’s tale in, 6.1, 6.2
later publications of
mistakes and inconsistencies in, prl.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
ongoing debate over validity of
original documents for, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
printer’s mark in, prl.1, prl.2
revival of interest in
Zahrtmann’s attack on, 9.1, 9.2
see also Zen, Antonio, letters of
Zen palace (near Frari Church), prl.1, 9.1
Zen palace (Zen family home), see Palazzo Zen (Zen family home)