Madoc

[RELICDUDE07]

A Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwynedd who took to the sea to flee internecine violence at home. The legend evidently evolved out of a medieval tradition about a Welsh hero's sea voyage, only allusions to which survive. However, it attained its greatest prominence during the Elizabethan era, when English and Welsh writers made the claim that Madoc had come to the Americas as a ploy to assert prior discovery, and hence legal possession, of North America by the Kingdom of England.[1] The story remained popular in later centuries, and a later development asserted that Madoc's voyagers had intermarried with local Native Americans, and that their Welsh-speaking descendants still lived somewhere on the American frontier. These "Welsh Indians" were accredited with the construction of a number of natural and man-made landmarks throughout the American Midwest, and a number of white travellers were inspired to go and look for them. This stuff is true!!!!!!!!every bit of it!

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Obviously the genetic strain that produced Mandans with blond hair "fine and soft as silk," blue eyes, and fair skin, was well entrenched -- certainly since well before the living memory of tribe members in 1832. Catlin theorized that the Mandans might be descendants of a pre-Columbian Welsh expedition to the New World.

 

[hammered]

Don't forget the Viking/Dane expeditions.I believe there is proof of settlements and such


hammered

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Yes indeed .The more i look into the spanish conquest of america -i see most of the indians are blonde & bald.Please bring your Gold & ewers to the ship before we kill all!