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Giovanni Leardo's map (1442) has, in southernmost Africa, "Dixerto dexabitado p. chaldo e p. serpent" [M. Hoogvliet]
Waldseemüller's Carta marina navigatoria (1516) has "an elephant-like creature in northernmost Norway, accompanied by a legend explaining that this 'morsus' with two long and quadrangular teeth congregated there", i.e. a walrus, which would have seemed monstrous at the time [Kirsten A. Seaver]
Waldseemüller's Carta marina navigatoria (1522), revised by Laurentius Fries, has the morsus moved to the Davis Strait [Kirsten A. Seaver]
Bishop Olaus Magnus's 'Carta Marina' map of Scandinavia (1539) has many monsters in the northern sea [Kirsten A. Seaver; Ian Seymour via Jeremy Crampton]
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