TIL there is a theory that Columbus' Navigator, William Harris AKA Guillermo Herries, an Irishman from Galway, had actually sailed to the Americas before 1492.

EhList , 10 months ago

One of this guy’s sources is Barry Fell who is a zoologist who likes to make pseudoscientific claims about linguistics. Im not sure this holds any validity

FizzlePopBerryTwist OP , 10 months ago

This would make a great deep dive subject for someone with a lot of time on their hands for research.

FlashMobOfOne , 10 months ago

Does anyone know of any good books on the subject?

oohgodyeah , 10 months ago

Don’t we already have evidence that the Vikings got to America first?

Daisyifyoudo , 10 months ago

Yes. People already existed here, the Vikings visited first (and most say the Irish too), Columbus didn’t “discover” shit. Only thing he did was rape, pillage, and enslave. And we have a holiday dedicated to him…

niktemadur , 10 months ago

And as incredible as it may sound, all of that pales in comparison to the diseases they brought and spread.

FlashMobOfOne , 10 months ago

And we have a holiday dedicated to him…

It’s a running theme in our species: memorializing awful people for the sake of tradition.

EhList , 10 months ago

To make Italian Americans feel proud of their ancestry and ignore all the anti-Italian racism that existed when the holiday was introduced in the 20th century

sethboy66 , 10 months ago

Yes, Vikings were the first Europeans that we know of; and China was the first of the Old World.

EhList , 10 months ago

The first “old world” people were Siberian tribes. The next group over were also Siberian tribes. In fact you have to actively ignore a lot of people from what is now Eastern Russia migrating between those areas to make China “the first”.

teft , 10 months ago

3 hr video? Any TL;DW?

FizzlePopBerryTwist OP , 10 months ago

TL;DW - There are carvings, stories, genetic evidence, linguistic evidence, and historical accounts that collectively support the idea that contact by the Irish (and maybe other Europeans) occurred 1000 years before Columbus and this dude in Galway knew about it from trying and then might have been in cahoots with Columbus to go there, but Columbus took all the credit as an “accidental” discovery.

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