I not sure Ireland had ships that could cross the Atlantic. Weren’t they Druids?
Well St Brendan was Irish ,he is alleged to have found America in the late 5th century.
Tim Severen took a replica of his boat across the Atlantic and arrived intact.
It was a wooden frame with a leather outer skin. There were a few holes that had to be stitched up along the way.
If Tim Severen can do it, i’m sure St Brendan did. :)
I’m no antropolobist or historian, but I’ve always heard that the Norse were very capable seamen and explorers. From the Western tip of the Norse peninslas across to Greenland to farthest northern America. Cold that be possible?
That would depend on exactly what you would classify as a "ship". Did the Irish build wooden ships, in the conventional sense? No, but they did build leather-hulled coracle over a wicker-like frame, and such are more seaworthy than many suppose.
Their own myths, and legends (which I remind you, are always founded in some truth), have them 'sailing' from one place to another, with nary a conventional sea-going vessel in sight. Ireland being an island, the inhabitants therein had to necessarily originally come by sea...
the infowarrior
Naw, just great swimmers.
I don't know why, but that's funny.