Cartographical Representation of the Scandinavian Arctic Regions

... Thus during the period outlined here, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the four Nordic countries formed - at least in principle - a single kingdom from 1389 to 1523, which later divided into two groups, the one Danish-Norwegian and the other Swedish-Finnish. The contours of the Scandinavian peninsula began to appear on maps of southern Europe in the fourteenth century, but it was only in the following century that cartography, properly speaking, took shape. ..