Note 752 — Chapter II
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Rafn gives a large map of Iceland with the names of a.d. 1000. On the errors of early and late maps of Iceland see Baring-Gould’s Ultima Thule, i. 253. On the varying application of the name Thule, Thyle, etc., to the northern regions or to particular parts of them, see R. F. Burton’s Ultima Thule, a Summer in Iceland (London, 1875), ch. 1. Bunbury (Hist. Anc. Geog., ii. 527) holds that the Thule of Marinus of Tyre and of Ptolemy was the Shetlands. Cf. James Wallace’s Description of the Orkney islands (1693,—new ed., 1887, by John Small) for an essay on “the Thule of the Ancients.”