Location Hypotheses
Kirsten Seaver identified the land as a fabled country, which had arisen on the background of the faded knowledge of lands in the far western ocean by Icelanders.
Carl Christian Rafn positioned Great Irleand in Chesapeake Bay. Rafn based his identification on Shawnee Amerindian legends of a race described as "white men who used iron instruments". These legends he connected to the description of the inhabitants of Greater Ireland as being white who carried poles.
Other sources place Great Ireland in Newfoundland, Canada.
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