Re: Alaska on 'Ancient' maps

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas.NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:38:21 -0400

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:06:32 +0100, Doug Weller
<dweller@ramtops.thisremove.co.uk> wrote:

>What does "Hanc Terram Invenere Nav Telus Ita Norx Regis" mean?

Whatever it ain't, it ain't Latin. Not exactly anyway.

It looks like it wants to be "To discover this Land, [someone] thus
sail[ed] the northern(?) regions(?). "Norx" isn't Latin; regis is
literally "king's". Could I guess be an abbrev. for "regiones".

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.