The Cobandi, Greek Kobandoi, were a people of Ptolemy's Geography (2.10) who lived in Jutland. Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the mainland part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ...
Here a little excerpt about the Scandinavian sphere.
To the north the Cimbri and at the Cimbrian peninsula he has: "Sigulones, deinde Sabalingii, deinde Cobandi, supra quos Chali, et rursus supra hos ad occasum Fundusii, ad ortum Charudes, omnium vero maxime ad septentriones Cimbri; "
East of the Cimbrian peninsula there are four islands called the Scandian islands, three of them smaller, of which the one in the middle has the following position 31.00 : 57.20 (Ptolemy used as the first mapmaker a system with co-ordinates).
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