Note 1616 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 3)

C. H. Haskins, The De Arte Venandi cum Avibus of the Emperor Frederick II, in: English Historical Review, vol. xxxvi, London, 1921, p. 346, note 8; idem, Studies, 1924, p. 316, note 104. “Gallandia” here may mean Greenland, although in Ordericus Vitalis (Hist. eccles., II, 5) “Gollanda” is probably Gotland (see below, p. 487, note 455). Abu-l-Ḥasan, a Moslem geographer of the thirteenth century, places the island of the white falcons to the west of Denmark. “Its length from west to east is about seven days and its breadth about four days.” He reports that white falcons are brought from here for the Sultan of Egypt. He also speaks of a white bear in these regions, which goes out into the sea and swims and catches fish (Nansen, Northern Mists, 1911, vol. ii, pp. 208–209).