Posted on 09/10/2018 8:20:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
One of the most dramatic pieces of evidence for a pre-Columbian crossing of the Atlantic is to be found in a single Latin marginalia, that is some words scribbled into the margin of a book. The sentence in question appears in a copy of the Historia rerum ubique gestarum by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini which was published in Venice in 1477. In that work Piccolomini discusses the arrival of Indians in Europe blown from across the Atlantic at a date when America was unknown to Europeans (another post another day). Next to this passage a reader has written in Latin the following extraordinary words:Homines de catayo versus oriens venierunt. Nos vidimus multa notabilia et specialiter in galuei ibernie virum et uxorem in duabus lignis areptis ex mirabili persona...Now our author (of the marginalia) was in Ireland sometime in the 1470s or perhaps the very early 1480s. He then inserted this sentence in his copy of Piccolomini sometime after 1477 and probably in the early 1480s: he certainly wrote in the book in 1481. He had clearly, while in Ireland, seen a man and a woman who he believed had been blown across the Atlantic from China and who had arrived on a strange looking boat...
The Gulf Stream washes up American plants, American animals and American driftwood on the shore of south-western Ireland. Why couldn't the Gulf Stream wash up an Amerindian vessel? ...
...the author of the marginalia is remembered by history as Christopher Columbus. He was most likely in Ireland in 1476-1477 on a sailing trip to the north. This accidental encounter with a Amerindians (or Chinese as he believed) was to prove an important moment in his life. And years later his son recalled the episode in his father's autobiography...
(Excerpt) Read more at strangehistory.net ...
thanks for the links!
My pleasure.
IIRC, the Mandan women were known for their . . . friendliness.
Many Mandans had blonde or light brown hair and blue eyes; wonder how that happened? Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes, the Mandans are no more. They were decimated by smallpox and other diseases and merged with the Arikara.
Latin to English by Google:
“Homines de catayo versus oriens venierunt. Nos vidimus multa notabilia et specialiter in galuei ibernie virum et uxorem in duabus lignis areptis ex mirabili persona...”
“The men from the catayo were sold at sunrise. We have seen many things notable and especially in Galuei of Ireland, a man and wife in two wonderful pieces of wood...”
Latin to English by Yandex:
“Men of catayo towards the east they came. We have seen many international empirical evidence and specially in galuei ibernie husband and wife in two wood areptis of this wonderful person...”
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