The Land Of Sorani, Which Lay Over Against Scotland, Naturally
Suggested The Suderoe, Or Southern Islands Of The Norwegians, Now Called
The Western Islands Or Hebrides.
Ledovo and Ilofe, are the Lewis and
Islay.
Sanestol, the cluster of islands named Schants-oer. Bondendon,
Pondon, or Pondon-towny in Sky. Frisland, is Faira or Fera, also called
Faras-land. Grisland seems Grims-ay, an island to the North of Iceland:
though I would prefer Enkhuysan to the eastwards of Iceland, but as that
was probably nothing more than an island of ice, we are compelled to assume
Grims-ay, Engroneland is obviously Greenland. Estoitland must have been
Winland, the Newfoundland of the moderns; and the Latin books may have
been carried there by bishop Eric of Greenland, who went to Winland in
1121. Drogio lay much farther south, and the people of Florida, when
first discovered, had cities and temples, and possessed gold and silver.
Icaria with its king Icarus, could be no other than Ireland[2] and
perhaps the name took its origin from Kerry; and as Icarus was chosen for
the name of its first king and lawgiver, his father must of course be
Dedalus who, in all probability, was some Scottish prince, having a name
of a similar sound. Neome I take to be Strom-oe, one of the Faro isles,
Porland probably meant the Far-oer, or Faro islands; as Far-oe, or Far-
land, is easily transmuted into Porland.
It is true that we find no such name as Zicumni among the princes of the
Orkneys.
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