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. 🗺️
Welsh incursion into North America occurred in the sixth century
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
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Not everything you learned about Christopher Columbus is true | CNNedition.cnn.com
He actually never set foot in North America, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, but in present day Venezuela on his fourth journey. Ad ...
Vikings settled in North America in 1021AD, study says - BBCbbc.com
Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, a ...
The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America - History.comhistory.com
Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.
Leif Erikson, The First European Explorer To Reach Americaallthatsinteresting.com
What's more, it's become more widely known that Columbus never actually set foot in mainland North America in the first place. However, the ...
Columbus Day vs Leif Erikson Day: Who 'Discovered' America?time.com
Leif Erikson Day, a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.
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