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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Scandia was a name used for various uncharted islands in Northern Europe by the first Greek and Roman geographers. The name originated in Greek sources, where it had been used for a long time for different islands in the Mediterranean region. In the Iliad the name denotes an ancient city in Kythira, Greece. The first attested written source using the name for a Northern European island is the work of Roman Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia of circa AD 77. Pliny described "Scandia" as an island located north of Britannia. This island does not appear to be the same as the island Pliny calls "Scatinavia", located near Cimbri.