Note that there is between the said Rost Islands & Lofoot, a whirle poole called Malestrand, which from halfe ebbe vntill halfe ﬂood, maketh such a terrible noise, that it shaketh the ringes in the doores of the inhabitants houses of the sayd Islands tenne miles off. And the same day in the afternoone appeared ouer our heads a rainebow, like a semicircle, with both ends vpwarde. Thus continuing our course along the coast of Norway and Finmark, the 27 day we tooke the Sunne, being as farre shot as Lofoot, and had the latitude in 69 degrees. We went north and by West, because we would not come too nigh the land, and running that course foure houres, we discouered, and had sight of Rost Islands, ioining to the main land of Finmarke. It was also mentioned as Malestrand in The first voyage made by Master Anthonie Ienkinson, from the Citie of London toward the land of Russia, begun the twelfth of May, in the yeere 1557, by the English traveller and author Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11) - he probably confused Maelstrom with the name Malestrand, now Marstrand, in southern Sweden: The Maelstrom was mentioned in The Mariners Mirrour (London, 1588), a translation by Anthony Ashley (1551/2-1628) of Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (1583-84), by the Dutch master sea pilot Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (1533/34-1606). The Maelstrom on a clear day the islands of Mosken and Værøy can be seen in the distance.-photograph: Lofoten Islands The early-modern Dutch noun maelstrom was also borrowed into: etymological notes ), originally a proper name designating a powerful whirlpool in the Arctic Ocean, off the west coast of Norway, which was formerly supposed to suck in and destroy all vessels within a wide radius its Norwegian name is Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen. This word is from the early-modern Dutch noun maelstrom (now maalstroom - cf. The noun maelstrom denotes a powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river and, figuratively, a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.

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