He published in 1570 what is often described as the first modern atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum, a publication with the distinction of being the most expensive book brought out in the second half of the sixteenth century. After entering the Guild of Saint Luke in 1547 as a map illuminator, he embarked upon a career dealing in books and prints and began to attend the annual Frankfurt book fair where, in 1554, he became acquainted with Gerardus Mercator.Īn extensive traveller throughout the Low Countries, France, Italy, Germany, England, and Ireland, Ortelius began to compile and publish his own maps, starting with a wall map of the world (1564) and following this with maps of ancient Egypt (1565), Asia (1567), Spain (1570), and the Roman empire (1571). The eldest of the three children of an Antwerp merchant, from the age of ten and following his father’s death, Abraham Ortels was raised by his uncle Jacob van Meteren. (Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp source of image: Wikimedia Commons) Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) JSTOR 1151390.Abraham Ortelius, by Peter Paul Rubens. "Norumbega and "Harmonia Mundi" in Sixteenth-Century Cartography". Reider T, Sherwin The Viking and The Red Man.Ancient Norumbega, or the voyages of Simon Ferdinando and John Walker to the Penobscot River, 1579-1580. American beginnings: Exploration, culture, and cartography in the land of Norumbega (University of Nebraska Press) Baker, Emerson W., Churchill, Edwin A., D'Abate, Richard S., Jones, Kristine L., Konrad, Victor A.^ Acadia National Park - Norumbega Mountain Loop accessed 2018.01.25.The Discoveries of America to the year 1525. American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega. "Camden inn maintains grand old aspirations". ^ a b Schweitzer, Sarah (January 28, 2007).^ Andy Woodruff, Norumbega, New England’s lost city of riches and Vikings, accessed 2018.01.25.^ "Did Leif Erikson once live in Cambridge, Massachusetts?".Presently, the myth is commemorated by such place names as Norumbega Mountain (formerly Brown Mountain) in Acadia National Park. In honor of Horsford's generous donations to Wellesley College, a building named Norumbega Hall was dedicated in 1886 and celebrated in a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. During the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford associated the name and legend of Norumbega with supposed Norse settlements on the Charles River, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he claimed Fort Norumbega was located.
In 1886, inventor Joseph Barker Stearns built a mansion named " Norumbega Castle", which still stands on US Route 1 in Camden, Maine, overlooking Penobscot Bay. The town of Bangor, Maine, commemorated the legend during the nineteenth century, naming their municipal hall "Norumbega Hall". It often appeared on subsequent European maps of North America, lying south of Acadia in what is now New England. In 1542, Jean Allefonsce reported that he had coasted south from Newfoundland and had discovered a great river. It may mean "quiet place between the rapids" or "quiet stretch of water". The word "Norumbega" was originally spelled Oranbega in Giovanni da Verrazzano's 1529 map of America, and the word is believed to derive from one of the Algonquian languages spoken in New England. It was alleged that the houses had pillars of gold and the inhabitants carried quarts of pearls on their heads.
Norumbega, or Nurembega, is a legendary settlement in northeastern North America which was featured on many early maps from the 16th century until European colonization of the region. Part of Abraham Ortelius' atlas from 1570, showing "Norvmbega" among other somewhat mythical names for various areas as well as several phantom islands.
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