Who Really Discovered America? - 90 Books on DVDrom [or download] (Vikings, Irish, Welsh etc)
This Day in History: In October 2000 President Bill Clinton issued Presidential Proclamation 7358, proclaiming October 9 as Leif Erikson Day. Leif Erikson Day is a day held in honor of the first Europeans who have set foot in North America.
According to the sagas of Icelanders, Erikson established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows and which was occupied c. 1000.
Leif was the son of Erik the Red, who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
There are actually many nationalities who have also claimed to be the first discoverers of America, long before Columbus...some before Leif. The Welsh Prince Madoc claimed to have visited in the 1100's and there have been stories among the Creek natives of the "Welsh Indians."
The Irish have also sailed to America in the 6th century (St. Brendan), as well as the Phoenicians, and the Chinese in the 5th century (there was a supposed discovery that Buddhistic traditions among the Mexican natives, jade ornaments in Nicaragua, and a Chinese symbol on a monument), and the Greeks have claimed the earliest European discovery (Ptolemy) 2300 years ago.
The Book of Mormon states that some ancient inhabitants of the New World are descendants of Semitic peoples who sailed from the Old World.
There are also Native American legends that tell of a race of white giants that inhabited the Americas a long time ago.
Chief Rolling Thunder of the Comanches, a Great Plains tribe, once gave the following account of a race of white giants in 1857: “Innumerable moons ago, a race of white men, 10 feet high, and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living, here inhabited a large range of country, extending from the rising to the setting sun. Their fortifications crowned the summits of the mountains, protecting their populous cities situated in the intervening valleys."
See also: Did Vikings Actually Inhabit Minnesota?
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