----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am having difficulty identifying a map found in our Norway drawer. The map is titled "Norway" and the only other publication information is "Walker & Boutall sculpserunt" printed outside the neat line lower right. There is an inset upper left titled "Continuation Northwards". Printed on a sheet of good quality watermarked paper 69 x 43 cm, with deckled edges all sides. The map has been folded at one time, perhaps to fit a book pocket? Visual scale bars in Norse Miles and English Miles. At first I thought all I needed was a date, and I attempted to match the counties and places shown to figure out the time period. Some of the county names are correct and the city of Oslo is correct. Other county names are pretty close, slight misspellings so I thought I had just not identified the right language. Some places are just incorrectly named (or made up?). The bordering territory on the south east of Norway is called "Elfhome". In the northern part of the map there are areas marked "Sparebiders Folk", "Stiordale Folk", "Gauldale Folk", etc. I'm beginning to suspect this is a map to accompany a fictional work...! I have checked serious geographical sources and also several dictionaries of imaginary places without success. Can anybody suggest a work of English fiction that is based on "not really Norway"? All suggestions gratefully accepted. Except that I can't just throw it away because somebody important saw me working on it, and it has become a Reference Challenge which I can't refuse! Thanks, Cathy --------------------------- Cathy Moulder, Curator Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 24745 Lloyd Reeds Map Collection FAX: (905) 546-0625 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada