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Christopher Columbus who discovered America in 1492 was preceded by the Vikings who had discovered the land almost five centuries before Columbus. It was in the year 1000 that Vikings reached America, more than four centuries before Christopher Columbus was even born. By profession, they were sea adventurers who were from the state of Scandinavia. Being valiant adventurers by nature, they had left their native homeland in the pursuit of conquests and plunder.
The information about Vikings has been present in two sagas of narrative ballads namely, the Saga of Eric the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders. Since both of these sagas differ divergently in their facts, it seems probable and possible that Bjarni Herjolfsson discovered North America in 986, when driven off course on a voyage from Iceland to Greenland. Even the so-called Vinland Map that was discovered and published in 1965 espouses the theory that it was Bjarni Herjolfsson who had originally discovered America.
The information about Vikings has been present in two sagas of narrative ballads namely, the Saga of Eric the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders. Since both of these sagas differ divergently in their facts, it seems probable and possible that Bjarni Herjolfsson discovered North America in 986, when driven off course on a voyage from Iceland to Greenland. Even the so-called Vinland Map that was discovered and published in 1965 espouses the theory that it was Bjarni Herjolfsson who had originally discovered America.
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Folk had entered through Alaska and worked their way down and other folk had sailed from the south Pacific to South America and Phoeniceans had also sailed to South America. before Brendan and Leif and CC. The land was long-populated when Saint Brendan is believed to have landed (c. 500) and when Eric the Red's son Leif set foot on North America (c. 1001) and when Columbus reached the West Indies (1492-ish).
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