[3] Although he has at times been identified with John Kananos,[4] there is no reason other than their surnames to equate the two obscure figures.
[3] Judging by his interest in the silver coinage minted in Stockholm and the barter trade in Bergen, Kananos may have been a merchant.
[2] Besides Stockholm and Bergen, he visited Norway, Schleswig, Copenhagen, Pomerania, Danzig, Prussia, Livonia, Latvia and England, whence he sailed to Iceland.
[2] The Baltic Sea he calls the Venedicos Kolpos ("Wendish Bay").
[1] He refers to Iceland as inhabited by "fish-eaters" (ichthyophagoi) and identifies it with the Thule of Claudius Ptolemy.