This makes me laugh.
So, they were THERE FIRST.
IF THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT...WHO CARES???
If I find a diamond on the street and I walk away, what good is the diamond or anything else.
If you discover continents, or countries, or states or cities and you do NOTHING about it.’
SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE PRETTY STUPID.
There was no booty to be looted in the Azores. The Vikings were pretty lazy about that.
The weird thing was they had such a lust for green pastures and the Azores would have given them a perfect launching point for their excursions.