Historical Question #5

Who was the European to reach North America?

[paulw]

First European perhaps?

St. Brendan, Erik the Red, Monty Python?

C'mon, Paul. I thought the question was a throw-away.

[paulw]

Give me a date range (and no I do not mean AD1 - AD1999)

P.

[tumblingdown]

America was discovered in 1964 by the four explorers John, Paul, George and Ringo.



td.

Yeah, right.

Given a time frame the person/group I'm thinking of becomes
completely identifiable. I put these things up so I can
learn something too. I didn't realize that Brendan's
voyage was AD487. Of course, I don't think I would accept
that much of the evidence, either...

Let's rephrase the question:


Who was the first European to SETTLE in North America?

[tumblingdown]

Mick Jagger.


td.

[barrk]

DerFarm....do you have something against onanism? I thought it was one of men's favorite past times??

[tumblingdown]

yeah, i often like to get on one ;-)



td.

Action without change
The ultimate narcissism

TD, you're thinking of Onager. And you can't get on them,
because no one has yet domesticated them.

[paulw]

Well maybe Brendan is a bit dodgy but the Vikings almost certainly visited N America (Vinland) in the ninth/tenth Century.

Cheers,

P.

[Ianpbaker]

Chris columbus in October 1492, is usually asociated with the first person to find america, but I think I remember reading somewhere that it being disputed and that some-else beat him to it. can't remember who though

[Ianpbaker]

Paul and derfarm

I found an interesting read on the viking discovery, check out

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01416a.htm

Well, it appears that I was wrong in my first
supposition...by about 170 years.

I was thinking of Prince Madoc and the Welsh. They
supposedly landed in Mobile Bay around 1170

http://welshdragon.net/myths/madoc_usa.htm

however, it seems that Leif the Lucky and some of his not-
so-lucky compatriots made it to Newfoundland (or
thereabouts) around 1000.

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/north/nor-i/thule/thu-020e.htm

Personally, having been to both Newfoundland and Mobile in
the winter, I think Madoc got the better of it.

[paulw]

Well you live and learn. I thought it was Eric the Red and I thought he was a bit earlier than 985 but I had only vaguely heard of Madoc and I certainly would not have thought of him.

Cheers all,

P.

[CyberSurfer]

I remember it being Eric the Red as well...Mind you, I dropped History last year, so I'll just shut up now!