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Tag: Medieval Greenland

Posted on:April 30, 2017February 15, 2022Seafaring History

Vikings and America: The People who beat Columbus

If you asked the average person on the street who “discovered” America (we’ll put aside the racist and Eurocentric issues this raises for another time) most people would probably tell you it was Christopher Columbus. In 1492, Columbus undertook his first voyage Westwards, under the theory that he would reach Asia – contrary to popular […]

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