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=== ''Maps, Myths, and Men'', 2004 === In 2004, [[Kirsten Seaver|Kirsten A. Seaver]] published ''Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map'', a wide-ranging review of the arguments and evidence presented to that date. Seaver was hailed as the Vinland map's "most thorough and outspoken critic in recent years" for her "exemplary interdisciplinary study".<ref name="Shalev">{{Cite journal |last=Shalev |first=Zur |date=2007 |title=Reviewed Work: Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map by Kirsten A. Seaver |journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=455β457 |doi=10.1162/jinh.2007.37.3.455 |jstor=4139628|s2cid=145613762 }}</ref><ref name="Schledermann">{{Cite journal |last=Schledermann |first=Peter |date=2005 |title=Review: Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map |journal=Arctic |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=84β85 |doi=10.14430/arctic396 |df=dmy-all|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="HarveyReview">{{Cite journal |last=Harvey |first=P. D. A. |date=January 2006 |title=The Vinland Map, R. A. Skelton and Josef Fischer |journal=Imago Mundi |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=95β99 |doi=10.1080/03085690500362629|s2cid=128426431 }}</ref> She also theorized that the forger could have been [[Joseph Fischer (cartographer)|Father Josef Fischer]] (1858β1944), an Austrian cartographer and Jesuit scholar. However, subsequent research into the provenance of the Vinland map documents (see below) suggests that they are unlikely to have spent any time in Fischer's possession.<ref name="TheTimes">{{Cite news |last=Hellen |first=Nicholas |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/amateur-scuppers-viking-map-of-us-85xxrwc9l6b |title=Amateur scuppers 'Viking map of US' |date=June 2, 2013 |work=The Sunday Times |access-date=April 28, 2020 |issn=0140-0460 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Robert Baier, a forensic handwriting analyst, examined the map text and correspondence of Fischer, and his opinion was that "they are not the same writer."<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Viking Map |url=http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/secrets/a-viking-map/1003102/3375254 |series=Secrets |network=Smithsonian Channel |date=2013 |season=1 |number=5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224051532/https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/secrets/a-viking-map/1003102/3375254| archive-date=24 February 2015}}</ref>
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