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Irish Monk lands in americas 500-1000 years before Columbus

Lauren

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The Irish Saint Brendan landed in North America 500 to 1000 years before Christopher Columbus? He also arrive in Iceland and Newfoundland before the vikings and documented in the book of Icelanders written in 1130. Could Saint Brendan have stepped foot on the mythical Island that was on early maps but has disappeared and that I covered in an earlier episode Hy - Brazil?  This Saint is attributed with naming it Hy-Brazil. His voyage is record in  "Navigatio sancti Brendani Abbattis," written in the 9th-century.

 

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