[SunkenCiv]

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

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Leif Ericsson was in Newfoundland 400 years earlier.

[vladimir998]

The mentioning of the Bristol Men reminds me of one of the most heartbreaking novels I have ever read:

http://www.amazon.com/Greenlanders-Jane-Smiley/dp/0394551206/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

[Sherman Logan]

I sailed a hundred leghe (miles)

A league is not a mile. It's 3 miles. So depending on which mile was used, 100 leagues would to 240 to 460 miles.

[clearcarbon]

Climate change is cyclic. That should always be considered when considering migration causes and travel anomalies. That applies to plants and animals as well.

[BroJoeK]

Say, I hate to bring up a sore subject, but the most obvious reason Columbus’ claims have to be discarded is because he says the weather then was warmer than now, and that just can’t be!

It makes Columbus a climate change denier, so we need to dig up his bones and put them in jail until Columbus admits that the world is warmer now than it ever was, and it’s all the fault of middle-aged white men like... like... well, like Columbus.

;-)