Briton found America in 1499

The Daily Mirror ^ | 29 Aug., 2009 | By Tom Pettifor

[IYellAtMyTV]

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[Vanders9]

Well the letter says he set off...it doesnt say he made it. Note also that the king lifted and injunction against him - he might have agreed to set off on the basis that the injunction was lifted, and then scarpered off!

[Dumpster Baby]

It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that Vikings or some other Norsemen from Europe got here first, but didn’t make it back, or made it back and the whole story lost due to a lack of infrastructure capable of surviving the centuries to come. Like, where are the Viking Dead Sea Scroll equivalents, if such a thing ever existed at all?

[JLS]

Exactly, I wondered if due to the hour I was missing something. The article fails to tell us:

1. if he left,

2. if he made it to North America,

3. if he returned to England.

[nathanbedford]

Everybody knows that it was the Irish monks who discovered North America. By the sixth century Saint Brendan was saying mass in Iceland, Greenland, and North America. This they did while saving civilization.

Yours in Christ,

Monsignor McBedford

[eyedigress]

LOL! You are in the transformation no?

[Liberty Valance]

Great post!

[newguy357]

Uhh... the vikings did make it here first. ~1000 AD if I remember correctly. It’s not too controversial.

[Bushwacker777]

Little did the Indians know that their open immigration policy would lead to their demise.

[ican'tbelieveit]

hahahahahaha!

[Yossarian]

A big St. Brendan Bump!

Reproduction of St. Brendan's ship, sailed by Tim Severin to America in 1977

[Wonder Warthog]

"Little did the Indians know that their open immigration policy would lead to their demise."

Really?? The ones out here seem to be quite lively, happily scalping the white man every day in their casinos.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Did Chinese beat out Columbus?

[RoadTest]

Yes, and I think John Cabot mapped the coast of North America two years after Columbus stumbled upon an island in the Caribbean that he thought was the East Indies.

[SunkenCiv]

L'Anse aux Meadows

Google

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/1421/index

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[ASA Vet]

Sure miss Bill’s threads.

[Thermalseeker]

It’s not too controversial.

It's all about perspective. How does one group of people "discover" a land that already has 20 million people living there? Whether the ancestors of those who were already living here in "the new world" in Viking times came by way of a land bridge from Asia or sailed here from across the Pacific, the fact is there were millions of people living here at least ten centuries, and probably a lot longer, before the Vikings ever thought about sailing west.