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Kvenland (Kvinnors land, Terra Feminarum, Naisten Maa) in year 890. The land ruled by the Amazons - by Queens, or kvinnor (the women).



Also "...In the map of Adam of Bremens, the Amazons’ Land (Terra Feminarum) is indicated on the Baltic shores. This tallies with the fact that the Amazons are mentioned in the Iliad, with reference to their battle against King Priam when he was young, before the Trojan War. Priam himself claims that they were “as strong as warriors” (Iliad 3.189). The Amazons, therefore, lived in the same context of Troy and, since Troy stood near the Baltic coast of Southern Finland, as we shall see later, it follows that the map of Adam of Bremen corresponds perfectly to the world of Homer, because it locates the Cyclopes on the coast of Norway and the Amazons, that is to say the region of Troy, near the Baltic coast. In short, an ancient tradition, dating back to the Bronze Age, continued until the Middle Ages, when Adam of Bremen collected it and passed it on to us with this map. Moreover, the extraordinary coherence of this picture corroborates the idea that the mythical Ripheian Mountains, on whose location there have never been precise ideas, were the mountains of central and northern Norway.

Still on the Amazons, an ancient tradition traces these women back to the Northern world: according to Adam of Bremen, “people say that the Amazons lived along the Baltic coasts” (Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis 19), and Saxo Grammaticus—a learned Danish scholar who lived in the second half of the 12th century, author of the Gesta Danorum (“The Feats of the Danes”), a monumental literary work written in Latin—tells us that

There was a time when some women in Denmark exchanged their beauty for male clothes and devoted themselves to the art of war (…) thus transforming their womanly features into those of men. Their eagerness for military glory was so strong that you would have thought they were no longer women (Gesta Danorum, 7.6.8 )

The Nordic Origins of the Odyssey and the Iliad: the Migration of Myth.
by Felice Vinci

...на карте Адама Бременского район матриархального царства Квенланд на берегах Ботнического залива обозначен как Земля амазонок (Terra Feminarum).

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