They burnt her notes, and then the follow-up researchers publish her antithesis, not her thesis. And now the spin to protect what really is going on:
Why is the fact that bankers already knew that there was land proof that the land was discovered by the British, when the known previous explorer who supposedly didn’t “get” it was Italian, sailing for Spain? Why would an Anglo culture cover up the discovery by one Brit, so as to protect the status of another Brit?
The fact is that the Catholic Church knew very well that there was a New World. They had maintained a diocese of Greenland for centuries in North America, interrupted only by the plague. And the same founders of the diocese of Greenland were all over exactly where Cabot landed.
The catch is that the Church’s knowledge of Greenland was inspecific; the knowledge of Vinland known only to Icelanders and Scandinavians on either side of England, and only through Sagas, which came to be associated with paganism, and were not translated into Latin.
I have a bad tendency to write quickly, THEN double-check my facts. People who read my posts will frequently catch me making corrections such as these, logn befroe others hop in:
The sagas were very rarely translated; they were only translated into English in the late 19th century. But there were some much-neglected translations into other languages outside Scandinavia before then, and I’d presume that includes Latin.