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> Supposedly there had been fishing expeditions to the new world coast for a long time prior to Columbus. The fishermen didn't want anyone to know where they we
by LeifCarrotson 10y ago
> Supposedly there had been fishing expeditions to the new world coast for a long time prior to Columbus. The fishermen didn't want anyone to know where they were finding such good fishing grounds so never told where they had traveled.
I've never heard of such an expedition. How did they transport fish that were worth consuming without refrigeration?
- dboreham 10y agoBy drying it or salting it I suspect. The story is common knowledge where I grew up in Scotland, so I don't have a specific source but I did some Googling and found this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_European_colonization_of_North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_European_colon... "c. 1200: English, Irish, Norse fisherman begin fishing off the coast of Newfoundland" So at least I'm not making this up out of thin air. See also the story of Prince Henry Sinclair where supposedly fishermen blown off course by a storm lived in Newfoundland, eventually returned home and their story became known to Henry, leading to his expeditions.