Olaus Magnus (born Olof Månsson; October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic clergyman. Olaus Magnus (a Latin translation...
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Johannes Magnus (a modified form of Ioannes Magnus, a Latin translation of his birth name Johan Månsson; 19 March 1488 – 22 March 1544) was the last functioning...
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Kraken (section Olaus Magnus)
Machan (2020): "Olaus Magnus's magnificent sixteenth-century Carta Marina is replete with imagery of krakens.. (See Figure 3.)" Olaus Magnus (1998). Foote...
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Gnome (section Olaus Magnus)
erudite Swedish Olaus Magnus in his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555) also provides a chapter on "demons in the mines". Although Olaus uses the term...
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by Olaus Magnus to Map of the Scandinavian countries 1539", Provisional ed. (1988) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carta marina. Magnus, Olaus (1539)...
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tugboats. Besides Poe and Verne, another literary source is of the 1500s, Olaus Magnus, a Swedish bishop, who had stated that a maelstrom more powerful than...
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of the movement were Nicolaus Ragvaldi and the brothers Johannes and Olaus Magnus. The belief continued to hold power in the 17th century, when Sweden...
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cold there were no swarms of honey-making bees." In the 16th century, Olaus Magnus, a Swedish cartographer familiar with Pliny's writings, created a map...
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22. "On the services performed by demons". Olaus Magnus (1887) [1539]. "Die ächte Karte des Olaus Magnus vom Jahre 1539 nach dem Exemplar de Münchener...
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ISBN 9780226925189. Olaus Magnus (1555). "Libri XX. Capitulum XX". Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (in Latin). Rome: Giovanni M. Viotto. p. 716. Olaus Magnus (1996)...
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seen sometime between 130 and 51 BC. Swedish ecclesiastic and writer Olaus Magnus included illustrations of sea serpents and other various marine monsters...
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including Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Moers, and Jules Verne. The Swedish bishop Olaus Magnus included the Moskstraumen into his detailed report on the Nordic countries...
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and the "Historia metropolitanæ ecclesiæ Upsaliensis", and his brother Olaus Magnus (d. 1588), who wrote the "Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus" and...
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Magnus Olai Beronius (18 October 1692 – 18 May 1775) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1764 to his death. Magnus Beronius was the...
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reported in Scandinavia, having been described by Conrad Gessner and Olaus Magnus. A study based on nearly 3,000 skins of the red fox in Finland, revealed...
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ISBN 014043593X, p. 83. J. D. Rateliff, Mr Baggins (London 2007) p. 281 Olaus Magnus (2017) [1998]. "Book 5, Ch. 16 On the killing of a bear and the drinking...
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[citation needed] Resource: Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus by Olaus Magnus. (The History of the Northern People, 1555 AD) The Mythical Creatures...
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never been suggested within serious research. The Swedish cartographer Olaus Magnus located Bjarmaland in the Kola Peninsula in his Carta marina et descriptio...
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where Starkad's heavy body long ago had made an imprint on a stone. Olaus Magnus' cites the story of Starkad from Gesta Danorum. He disputes Saxo about...
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Trolle (under Danish government) 1523–1544: Johannes Magnus (in exile after 1526) 1544–1557: Olaus Magnus (in exile) 1531–1573: Laurentius Petri (Nericius)...
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Part of the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as "Insula Magnetu[m]" (Latin for "Island...
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Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus is a work by Olaus Magnus on the Nordic countries, printed in Rome in 1555. It long remained for the rest of Europe...
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appeared in the 16th century, e.g. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Olaus Magnus, 1555) and the editio princeps of the 13th century Gesta Danorum by Saxo...
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is the heroine of a Swedish legendary saga, which was documented by Olaus Magnus, in 1555. It is believed to be from the Middle Ages, but includes Old...
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must be resisted. In 'Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus' (1555), Olaus Magnus describes (Book 18, Chapter 45) an annual assembly of werewolves near...
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Using fatwood lighters while working in Olaus Magnus' Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555)...
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List of minor planets: 2001–3000 (redirect from 2454 Olaus Magnus)
30, 1921 Heidelberg K. Reinmuth EOS · 19 km MPC · JPL 2454 Olaus Magnus 1941 SS Olaus Magnus September 21, 1941 Turku Y. Väisälä FLO 4.9 km MPC · JPL 2455...
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communion. List of Archbishops of Uppsala See entry of Olaus Martini in Rostock Matrikelportal Nordisk Familjebok (1914), article Olaus Martini In Swedish...
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Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, FRS (9 March 1840, Meldorf, Duchy of Holstein – 10 August 1918, Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England) was a German...
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Olaus Laurentii (died 25 June 1438) was a Swedish ecclesiastic and archbishop of Uppsala. Olaus Laurentii (who is known under the Latin form of his Swedish...
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