[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?

[Bushwacker777]

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

[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.

[pabianice]

"The letter came to light by chance. It was found in 1981 and passed to historian David Beers Quinn. He failed to publish it, preferring to wait for historian Alwyn Ruddock to release research on explorer John Cabot. In her will Dr Ruddock ordered all her notes destroyed. This spurred Dr Jones to discover what she had found."

Pure academic dishonesty.

[eleni121]

What a silly discusison given that “america” was never lost but also that so-called indigenous Americans arrived thousands of years ago...

In fact, mt-DNA Haplogroup X almost certainly arrived In North America from Europe, long before the Irish or Erikson or Columbus et al. The genetic code indicates the closest relationship with humans originally from the Near East, the Caucasus, and Mediterranean Europe.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Think of St Johns, NFLD (John Cabot 1497). The Brits and others were over here fishing for cod long before Columbus was a glint in the postman’s eye. But they kept the secret of a good cod fishing ground secret so they could exploit it. IMHO.

[the scotsman]

British historian Iain Wilson’s 1992 book ‘The Columbus Myth’ showed that English fishermen from Bristol almost certainly landed in America in 1481.

This story is hardly new.

[SunkenCiv]

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