The Vinland Map’s Best Kept Secrets – Part IV

B.L. Freeborn © December 2025

This is a continuation of three previous posts. If you have not read them, 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 and make your own Hudson Bay map.

There are just a couple more interesting pictures to show. Thanks to Photoshop the reader need not strain his eyes to see the Squirrel and Bird hidden in the map. There is one other creature to be found but that is up to the reader. It is a Bear.

The Bird

The Squirrel

The three animals are part of the story. It is the Bird that has the most significance though. In the story, it is a Jay. In real life, Oystein Magnusson took on many personas. He also acquired an alias. The bird represents that alias. It is one we still know today.

Sigurd described him in his later years. Historian Snorri relates that Sigurd complained that ‘some dark force had taken over Norway.’ Indeed, it might be said that when you have an enemy as brilliant as Oystein it is best to keep him in plain sight, like on a throne. The last thing one should do is fail to assassinate him and be duped into thinking one had succeeded. In so doing, Sigurd created a true enemy. So in the end, the map is indeed a very real treasure map.

And to the reader who hopes there might be more to be found, it is strongly suggested that one peruse ever so carefully the two books linked below.

The Vinland Map Cipher is the anagram study of the map.

A narrative version of King Oystein’s life based on the ciphers and historical records.

The Vinland Map Cipher Addendum is a pdf of images that may not be included in the two books.

Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. And may your travels be safe and bear fruit!

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The Vinland Map: Anagrams and… – Part III

B.L. Freeborn © December 2025

This is a continuation of the previous two posts. If you have not read them, you might want to start at this link.

Vinland Map. Photo by Yale Univversity.

In the last two posts about The Vinland Map (see image) many places were found, the signature of the author OM was located and a construction line was found. With numerous other anagrams within the legends OM indicates map assembly instructions.

This map was found bound in a book about Tartars, hence the name, ‘The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation.’ One may presume this is because several of the legends have the root word Tartar. However, one might want to notice this is an anagram of ‘art art.’ For example: Magnum mare Tartarorum is an anagram of MAN RAT RUMMAGE RUM MOR or ‘Man rat rummage room more.’

Magnum mare Tartarorum is also an anagram of:

NEG ART MAR U M ……. Negative art mar cup M
O                                    ……. O
ART MAR U M           ……. Art mar cup M.

This suggests a mirror image is to be used to create not only the M but the ‘mar cup.’ So what or where is the ‘mar cup’?

Let us proceed to make the real map and perhaps this question will be answered. You will need three copies each of the original and mirror versions.

Next there are two other lines that must be found besides the Apusia/Maori. These are the A lines. One runs through Alexandria and the other through Samaca. Both names have three A’s. Samaca is an anagram of MACS AA or ‘Makes AA.’ Similarly, Alexandria is an anagram of DRA LINE X AA or ‘Draw line across AA.’ Once these two lines are found the map needs to be folded so the lines are brought together. Further study reveals this needs to be done with a mirror image map.

Three lines are used to construct the hidden map.

Use mirror image copy and fold together on A-A lines.

Three fold lines have been found. One should also notice a few other map creation guides. On the upper right there is a point that sticks out. On the lower left there is an indent into which this can fit snugly. It is a tab and slot. There are two other tab/slots. The hook to the left of Norway, modern Denmark, is one and its slot is the indent below Imperiu Basora (the top of the M) on the far lower right. The top of the M will also be used to rest on the west coast of Africa where it fits very nicely. The point that sticks out and its mirror are another joining point. The assembly is as shown below.

Points that kiss to join copy and mirror image.

Tabs and slots used to join copies to make final map.

Lower round. Cut at Apusia/Maori line.

Two such portions, one in mirror, are joined to form a smooth curve.

Two copies kiss at tag points.

The final result will be exactly what is hinted at by two copies, one in mirror, that kiss at the tag points.  Alternatively, hold a map folded along that point against a mirror and see two perfect arcs meeting. Two large arcs meeting in this manner are a notable feature at one place on Earth.

This portion of the map is used to create another section. Two copies needed.

They join as shown using the indents where the points fit. The top portion meets at the ‘Thule Ultima’ legend.

Now enough is known to assemble the complete map using the six copies.

The whole map assembled from six maps.

The Map is the outline of the assembled maps. It is Hudson Bay.

Actual map of Hudson Bay for comparison.

This is none other than a complete map of Hudson Bay which would be the ‘mar cup’, O-den or just plain O for short. It is also referred to as RI. This notation is because the R letter’s numerical equivalent in Futhark is five and I is to be seen as a stroke or one. What significance is there to 5, 1 or 51? The latitude of Greenwich England from which longitude begins is 51. Moreover, 5+1 is 6 and so it says 56. At latitude 56 one finds Belcher Island in the perfect arc at the southern end of Hudson Bay. This is supposed to be the old  location of magnetic north or RI as in ‘are eye.’

The implication is that the entire bay was mapped during the early 1100’s. If OM, King Oystein Magnusson, created this map then it was done prior to 1123 when he passed.

So sad. The nay sayers are still neighing. There is one more post with hidden images and ….. something else. Regardless, one might clearly say this is a true treasure map.

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The Mystery Stone of New Hampshire, Part III

-B. L. Freeborn, July 2012, Updated Sept. 2022

-Gilgamesh, Let not the Waters of Death touch thy hand. Take thou a pole. And thrust forward..

We have been discussing the images on the Mystery Stone of New Hampshire. In prior posts we have studied the Face and the Top/Bottom Gears.

There is a grouping of seven images on the back and sides of the stone. I suggest the images are supposed to be read top to bottom, left to right. So we begin with the first image on the left of the face which is the Tepee or tent. Upon visiting the museum and seeing the Mystery Stone, we were told by the staff that it probably came from out west because the Plain’s Indians lived in tepees of the style depicted. This is difficult to argue except that does not preclude other people at other times living in the same style of structures. In fact, the style of tent is not exactly all that unique. It appears in Egypt both historically and presently. It is a style that gives an economy of form and materials. To limit it to one single group of people in a particular time period is excessively restrictive. In fact, the Cherokee tribe is originally from the St. Lawrence and South Carolina areas which means it is not solely a style found in the plains but just as common as the idea of a house with four walls.

We let the argument linger as to when and where, and continue on with the study.

We shall call the image a home because that is more meaningful. Home is where we all live. This home has three panels shown so we might assume it is made of six panels. 6 reminds us of the number of minutes that create an hour and seconds in an hour. From the top projects four stakes. We could say they represent the four corners of the world, or 4 x 6 equals 24 hours in a day. Between the three panels lies 2 distinct lines. So, we have a series of numbers again: 4 3 2 shown by one half of the home. We might take a leap and say two halves would give us 864 and 864000 is the diameter of the Sun, exactly the number of seconds in a day is 86400 and seconds of longitude around the world.

We might also say this home represents the measurement of the world from the pole. If a line fixed at the pole sweeps out we obtain lines of longitude, just as portrayed by the tent. The tent measures 90 degrees. Each panel measures 30 degrees. Thirty degrees is what is called a double hour in longitude. We call every 15 degrees a different time zone.

Summing up so far: we have a contemplative people who lived on a planet 7910 miles in diameter that turned at a fixed rate around a Sun of diameter 864,000 miles. And this place they called home and they measured it by rays of longitude.

So far so good.

Next we look at the Circle…More posts to come as we decipher the Mystery Stone….

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A Timeless and Ancient Riddle

© 2012 B. L. Freeborn (updated Nov. 2018)

What one thing is father, son and ghost to itself?

One.

1 = 1² = Square Root of 1 = 1/1 = 1×1

It is the mathematical identity principle.

And from One we create all….1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 1 + 1 = 3   and all else….

Let us not forget:

“The Source. There is only One. It is indivisible, exists everywhere, and everything is a part of it. The All is part of all, and all are part of the All.”   —J. Rankin

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