B.L. Freeborn © December 2025
This is a continuation of the previous post. If you have not read it, you may want to at this link.
Vinland Map. Photo by Yale Univversity.
The secrets hidden in the Vinland Map (image) are many. Hopefully you have had time to discover Oystein’s signature. Just in case you have not, it is shown at the end of this post.
Now you should be able to surmise two things. Some things on this map are shown with incredible accuracy and other things are laughable. Having found OM you know why.
What is superbly depicted on this strange map? Obviously, the depiction of Greenland is near perfect. How about the entire eastern seaboard from New Foundland to Cuba? How about the depiction of the Mississippi River? Then there is the depiction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. There is even a lovely picture of Niagara Falls in the 12th century before Goat Island was separated from the shore. OM or more properly, King Oystein Magnusson, included his beloved lake in Scotland where he was born. He also hinted at the location of his son’s grave and the monument he placed on it. This is the Rök rune stone in Sweden. There is also a rudimentary and awful depiction of Hudson Bay in a tiny Vinland in the upper left corner.
East coast shown on Vinland Map.
Mississippi River shown on Vinland Map
St. Lawrence Seaway noted in Vinland Map
Loch of Skene, Scotland shown on Vinland Map
Niagara Falls shown on Vinland Map before Goat Island
Hudson Bay in a tiny Vinland.
Rok rune stone. Son’s grave in Sweden.
It is almost as if it was designed so that when King Sigurd’s spies got their hands on it, Sigurd would be gravely disappointed. The only thing to be plundered was a large island of ice. He would not be able to see an entire continent was up for grabs and all the murdering he could do. That would wait until Columbus.
The nay sayers will not be deterred though. To them this map is still a fake. There must be more here or they will have their way and what a tragic loss that would be. There is more. As said before, it is a virtual treasure map.
Here is the next task. Find the extra fold line. Now one must ask why would someone make a beautiful and perfect copy of a map to pass off as an antiquity and make oodles of money but ruin it by folding it where there was no obvious reason or need?!?
Stranger still they had the foresight to fold it in the right place to see… Yes. What else is there to see? Where is this line?
Find the line first. It is just to the left of the fold/damage line running through the first letters of ‘Apusia’ and ‘Maori.’ The first is supposed to refer to Prussia and the second was never fixed to a location. One should be able to see immediately that an anagram begins: ‘A map …usia ori.’ If one looks at this long enough, with the hundreds of other anagrams to be found, one realizes it says ‘A map (of) O. Use IA (for) RI.’ The IA refers to the last letters of the words Apusia and Maori and RI to the place to be depicted.
Fold line on map through Apusia and Maori.
There are other anagrams to be found in these few letters but they do not produce like some of the other legends. In the letters of Greenland, spelled as Gronelada, there are more than thirty in basic Anglo-Saxon words. That is another point to note. We may hazard to guess that Oystein used basic English because he was sure Sigurd and friends would not be able to read it.
So, the fold line that appears through the two words is misplaced by a quarter inch. When the actual map is assembled this does not seem to make that big of a difference.
To be continued! Next post in about a week.
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The Vinland Map maker’s signature. The map and it’s mirror image form the letters O and M.
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