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Saint Brendan of Clonfert discovered America. The rest arrived after the fact.
by sys_64738 8y ago
Saint Brendan of Clonfert discovered America. The rest arrived after the fact.
- moate 8y ago*was the first European to land in America(Maybe). Fixed!
- Triesault 8y ago"Although the Irish had reached and even established a religious community in Iceland before A.D. 800, there is nothing to connect Brendan with this venture. Nor is there any reliable evidence to show that either Brendan or any of his countrymen had ever reached Greenland or America." Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brendan_saint_1E.html http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brendan_saint_1E.html