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+# The Myth of Norumbega
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+- The first person to put "Norumbega" on a map was Giacomo
+  Gastaldi.[@KirsNor98, 34]
+  - "Once Giacomo Gastaldi had placed a fully fledged country of *Nurumberg* on
+    his map *Tierra Nueva*, in an edition of Ptolemy's Geography published in
+    Venice in 1548, geographical ignorance allowed the non-existent land to
+    flourish on innumerable other maps and globes. Thus until well into the
+    second half of the seventeenth century, the mythical country of Norumbega
+    continued to appear on maps."[@KirsNor98, 34]
+- "Just about everything concerning Norumbega is in dispute. The two generally
+  agreed facts are: that in the mid-sixteenth century the name Norumbega
+  referred to the Penobscot Bay area and, by extension, to what is now Maine
+  and southern New Brunswick (an area of roughly between 44 and 46 degrees
+  north); and that the name itself was spawned by a small inlet labeled
+  *oranbega* on the maps drawn by Girolamo de Verrazzano in 1529 to illustrate
+  his brother's account of a voyage made five years previously."[@KirsNor98,
+  35]
+  - As with most myths, the facts such as they are vary widely between sources.
+  - The name "Norumbega" has a complicated history, unclear what its origin
+    was. Horsford claimed it was a native word that was a corruption of a
+    viking one.
+- "Two other statements are also uncontentious: that in the sixteenth century
+  the region of Norumbega was attracting English would-be colonists, and that
+  once sufficient firsthand knowledge reached Europe from early attempts at
+  settlement and from further exploration, both the cartographical Norumbega
+  and the tales associated with it entirely disappeared."[@KirsNor98, 35]
+
+\pagebreak
+# References