Was Christopher Columbus in Greenland 15 years before he discovered America?

christopher-columbus.ch ^ | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

That is the best guess, imho, although I doubt that written accounts of that will ever emerge.

Y’know, I’d be surprised if there are no deep-ocean Viking wrecks waiting along the “Leif Erikson route” to America.

[scrabblehack]

My measurements were from the north coast of Iceland.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks scrabblehack.

[gleeaikin]

It is NOT Portuguese. I speak Spanish, and have studied French, Italian and a little Portuguese. It might be Romanian. I tried reading it and it seems to be a variant of a Romance language, and I think it is instructions about using Wikipedia. I don’t know what it has to do with this particular article. For the curious here is a link to sample basic phrases. I can see various similarities to the languages I have studied.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Romanian_phrasebook

[central_va]

Columbus? Not a hard man to track, leaves dead Indians wherever he goes.

[Sherman Logan]

I think it’s pretty clear it’s Romanian. I mentioned Portuguese because of the subject of the article and before I figured out Romanian.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Dead Indians are not much fun, they don’t play, they don’t run.

[gleeaikin]

I had read about the abandonment of Greenland in Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. Here is a reaction to his analysis on the Greenland part of his book which disagrees with Diamond’s analysis.

http://www.barrelstrength.com/2013/01/12/jared-diamond-and-the-collapse-of-the-greenland-norse/

[Sherman Logan]

I rather enjoyed Guns, Germs and Steel, though the author’s anti-European bias was obvious. I thought Collapse was just stupid. Not much to it besides anti-European bias.

[BluH2o]

There is evidence Portuguese fisherman fished off the cost of Newfoundland for centuries before Columbus ...

The Azores were discovered by the Portuguese in 1421. It's thought they were fishing the Grand Banks near Newfoundland and were stopping in the Azores for some provisioning and processing of their fish before returning to Portugal.

[SunkenCiv]

Google translate detected it as Romanian.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, no surprise there.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for the heads up! Glad I didn’t waste my time on that one!

[SunkenCiv]