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To: paulklenk
Possible bogus aspects of this story are suggested by the fact that Madoc sailed to America not in the 6th century, but in the 12th century, around the year 1122, in a ship called the Gwennan Gorn, along with nine other ships.

Early settlers around Louisville found quite a bit of evidence they considered Welsh, especially that it was used as a kind of diplomatic and "educated" lingua-franca by the various Indian tribes, much like the Europeans then used Latin.

Several stone forts atop mountains in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee that obviously were desperate attempts at defence by some outnumbered European people, plus Cherokee and other legends suggesting that they had to overcome a scattered white (blue) eyed people en route from the Gulf Coast area to their home in the southern Mountains, migration circa 650-720 AD...

Celtic inscriptions dated to the 480-720 AD era are atop several mountains in West Virginia.

7 posted on 08/29/2002 10:03:07 AM PDT by crystalk
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To: crystalk
Some of Thomas jefferson's writings indicated that he believed Lewis and Clark might find blue-eyed natives speaking Welsh in the interior of North America.
8 posted on 08/29/2002 10:07:19 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: crystalk
Celtic inscriptions dated to the 480-720 AD era are atop several mountains in West Virginia

Assuming the inscriptions were in stone, how is such close dating done with no radio carbon, decomposition or similar things to place it in time?

12 posted on 08/29/2002 10:09:56 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: crystalk
Could there have been two different Welsh chiefs with similar names?

PRINCE MADOC AB OWAIN (12th century) and Prince Madoc ap Meurig,(Mentioned in article)

19 posted on 08/29/2002 10:30:04 AM PDT by scouse
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To: crystalk
> the fact that Madoc sailed to America not in the 6th century, but in the 12th century, around the year 1122, in a ship called the Gwennan Gorn, along with nine other ships.

Were they using maps from the Viking AAA? {ggg}.

43 posted on 08/29/2002 4:51:35 PM PDT by LostTribe
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To: crystalk

Their theory is based on an earlier Madoc being the one that legends were about. They are also keen Arthurian researchers.
The Madoc legend was revived by Dr. Jon Dee to support British claims to America and dispute the Spanish claim in the time of Elizabeth I but there is much confusion over the literary references he used to establish this claim.


62 posted on 08/03/2010 9:07:19 PM PDT by ArthMawr (Y Gwir yn erbyn y byd)
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