Map Section I.

Below these the Magnus family coat of arms is given on the map (for the second time), with a lion holding its paw on top, and a mouse below the lion.

Olaus Magnus' coat of arms

This refers to the fable of the lion and the mouse, where the mighty lion is saved from capture by the mouse cutting the ropes that bound him. Edward Lynam commented that "the Lion seems to stand for the Scandinavian peoples and the Mouse for Olaus, their interpreter and geographical ‘liberator.’" (Lynam 1949, 7) Olaus said that one reason he made his map was to remind the viewer of the vast lands that the Catholic Church had lost through the Reformation.

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