Welsh incursion into North America occurred in the sixth century. Welsh incursion into North America occurred in the sixth century A Welsh Christian community established a colony in what is now the United States Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Meriwether expedition to search carefully for signs of Welsh Christian communities
Columbus never set foot on the North American continent. Vikings settled Greenland around 985 AD. Columbus Day was created in 1937, championed by NYC's Italian-American community and FDR. The Welsh legend of Prince Madoc's 1170 voyage has no archaeological support. Evidence for pre-Columbian Irish or Welsh settlement in mainland North America remains absent from mainstream scholarship. 🗺️
Key Facts
- Welsh incursion into North America occurred in the sixth century
- A Welsh Christian community established a colony in what is now the United States
- Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Meriwether expedition to search carefully for signs of Welsh Christian communities
- Vatican records from the 1100s document three or four bishops who fled the Moorish invasion and came to the Americas
- Saint Brendan the Navigator and Irish monks reached North America
- An Irish monk died in what is now West Virginia, and his skull was found by archaeologist Robert Pile
- Robert Pile discovered Ogham writing in a rock overhang near where the skull was found
- Irish experts confirmed the Ogham writing as authentic Irish script
Source: The Round Table Chronicles - Ep. 5 by Institute for Natural Philosophy