who came first? the vikings or columbus. please tell me what you think. thank you.?

Question

i'm doing a project on the vikings presence before columbus so your comments would be really helpful. i also will acknowledge your comments.

cutefergie

Answer 1

Leif Eriksson is credited for discovering North America in roughly 1000 C.E. Eriksson also establishes a colony on somewhere in modern day Newfoundland, probably on the tip.

Erik the Red is now credited with landing on and 'discovering Greenland'. This event happens after Erik was banished from Iceland for several murders he committed there. That settlement was founded in 985 C.E. in modern day Greenland.

P.S. If you follow the stories of those ancient explorers there is another person that is now begin considered for having set foot in North America before anyone else. Saint Brendan the Navigator supposedly set foot on North American soil and may have actually made it as far south as Cuba.

That event would have occurred in roughly 532 C.E. although there is very little proof beyond his navigators logs he definitely made it somewhere close to the Americas. the interesting thing is that the stories the Mayans told of the 'first coming of Quetzlcoatl' would have matched Saint Brendan's appearance to a 'T'.

Answer 2

Okay, the Vikings were present on North America 500 years before Columbus--who sailed in 1492. But, keep in mind Columbus never actually landed on the greater mass of North America. He stopped on several Carribbean islands and thought he was in India. Hence, the name for the "savages" that he met was Indians. Incidentally, the Clovis people arrived via Beringia 25,000 years before the Vikings. They were really here first. Before the Vikings there are also reports of a Monk named Brendan who made a visit to North America as well.

Answer 3

It is believed that the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson (son of Eric the Red) reached Newfoundland around the year 1000 CE. There is a colonization site that was discovered on the site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960.

Columbus came about 500 (1492) years later.

Answer 4

The Vikings, Lief Erik came way before Columbus. Even before the vikings the Chinese came...

Answer 5

The Vikings came before Columbus. Another subject you might want to look into is the merchants of Tarshish, who, I believe , came before both Columbus and the Vikings. I'm not so sure about the Merchants of Tarshish coming before the vikings, but I'm pretty sure that they did.

Answer 6

Vikings were around from the 8th century to the 11th century. Christopher Columbus landed in 1492 which would be the 15th century. So the Vikings came first. :)

Answer 7

Vikings landed on Eastern Canada a few hundred yrs before Columbus landed in the Carribean.

There are stories of an Irish monk called Saint Brendan (Bréanainn) of Clonfert who travelled with other Pilgrims to a land West of the Atlantic @ 530 A.D.
Columbus used this legend for basis that you can sail West to reach Asia.
In 1976, Irish explorer Tim Severin built an ox leather curragh and over two summers sailed her from Ireland via the Hebrides, Faroe Islands and Iceland to Newfoundland to demonstrate that the saint's fantastic voyage was physically possible. On his voyage, he encountered various sights such as icebergs and sea animals such as whales and porpoises which appeared to be factual counterparts to the fantastic sights from the legends of Brendan. See; The Brendan Voyage, ISBN 0-349-10707-6

Also stories of fishermen from Portugal, Spain, Ireland, France before the Vikings who fished off the Grand Banks and wintered in S.E. Canada/New ENgland before sailing back home. But not exposing the location for fear of other fishermen finding their great fishing grounds.

Answer 8

vikings came before Columbus

Answer 9

The vikings landed in northeastern north america. There were some temporary settlements but the vikings were unable to form a permanent settlement. There have been viking artifacts found in indean sites and their base camps foundations.

Answer 10

the vikings.there are dugout settlements on the east coast of newfoundland with artifacts.this settlement could not have lasted long as the area is all but treeless and this could have been used a s a supply dropoff as the vikings were known to have reached furthur south along the eastern USA