medieval-atlas/introductory/2

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The location and shape of Scotland Although perceptual mapping is a modem concept, our forebears must have had their own mental image ofScotland. These images will inevitably have differed from ours: not only from period to period, but according to their particular cultural, political and economic affIliations. As we embark as twentieth century people on using an atlas set out in conventional modem cartography, it seems desirable to remind ourselves that we can not afford to disregard the likelihood of differences in outlook embodied in the mental maps by which our predecessors lived. One way of doing this is to consider maps with alternative perspectives. This map offers a view of Scotland in which the North Atlantic islands are envisaged as stepping stones on Viking Seaways. Stepping stones on the Viking seaways lAM

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