Now, most historians believe that the earliest Europeans in the New World were vikings led by Leif ericson around 1000.
However, there is another European who claimed to have arrived in the New World before 1492, and that is the Welsh prince Madog.
It is said that he came to the new world with a fleet of111 17 1. Some people think that several native American tribes may be descendants of members of his expedition.
So far, there is no conclusive evidence to prove this idea, but it is an interesting possibility.
Christopher Columbus said goodbye to the Queen of Spain when he went to the New World on August 3rd, 492.
Michael duke's story (in the public domain) originated from a poem of15th century.
According to this poem, Murdoch is the son of Gwen Ned, the king of Wales in history.
Owen has 13 legitimate children and some illegitimate children.
McDock is an asshole.
He was born in 1 145, that is, 1 170. After the king died, his sons argued endlessly about who would be the next king.
This led to a civil war.
Maddock is a peace-loving man who has no interest in violence, so he and his brother Reid left here in two boats, sailed west, and finally arrived in present-day North America and landed in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
They returned to Wales at 1 17 1, told their adventures, and called recruits to build a new kingdom at sea.
One hundred men, women and children left with Prince maddock and never came back.
The imaginative Madonna Vaughan Gwanden is on his boat.
(Corwin Bay-Sunio Trif Town Council)/Kloc-There is no mention of Prince Murdoch in the chronicles of the 0/2nd century, and there is no evidence that he landed in Mobile Bay, but this legend is still a popular story in the era of exploration.
John dee, Queen Elizabeth's agent, even used it to prove that Britain had legal territorial claims to France and Spain in the New World.
John dee even said that King Arthur, the legendary first king of Britain, and brutus of Troy both established British presence in the New World, further consolidating Britain's sovereignty over America.
In the 18 and 19 centuries, European explorers believed that many native American tribes were Welsh colonists headed by Prince maddock.
Some explorers even think that Mayan civilization and Inca civilization are related to the Prince of Wales.
The same is true of the mound building civilization in the eastern United States.
In addition, when the first Mormon settlers came to Utah, they were convinced that the Hopi and Zuni tribes were of Welsh descent, so they sent people who knew Welsh to these tribes to make sure that no Welsh speakers were found. The tribe that is most often regarded as a descendant or part of Welsh settlers is the Mande tribe.
Mandan people are a tribe that originally lived along the Missouri River.
Most of their descendants lived in Shakoka, North Dakota and South Dakota today, a beautiful Mandan girl, George Catherine 1832.
(In the public sphere), many Europeans who have seen Mandan, including the artist George Catherine, think that they are decent in Europe.
This is mainly because their relatively light-colored skin and hair will turn white with age, which is not the case in most surrounding tribes.
Other European explorers claimed that their language was very similar to Welsh and different from the surrounding Native American groups. They have advanced buildings, such as stone forts, permanent towns and villages with planned streets, and Karl Bodmer's Mandan bull boats and shacks.
(public domain) It is suggested that the Mandan bull boat is similar to Welsh coral.
In a battle near the Ohio River Falls, white Indians with blond hair and blue eyes were wiped out by non-white tribes around them.
This story has been incorporated into Madoff's legend, because Ors, a settler in Area F, identified the white Indian and the descendant of the Welsh expedition, the leader of the Mandan War and his favorite wife (Catherine 186 1-69) (public domain). Is there any archaeological or historical evidence to prove this idea? Demons with mounds on their backs were once thought to be descendants of Welsh settlers.
It is reported that there is also a mass grave nearby, where it is said that there was a battle between white Indians and other tribes.
Legendary believers claim that this is the cemetery of the war dead.
In addition, there is a story that several skeletons were found in Jefferson, Indiana. These bones are buried in brass armor.
Most of these statements cannot be verified because there is no evidence to analyze.
The mass grave mentioned by the early settlers has obviously been washed away by the river (if it ever existed) and the armor has disappeared.
Moreover, most contemporary linguists don't believe that Mandan is similar to Welsh, just a few words.
In the19th century, it was very common to attribute the mounds found in some parts of the northeastern United States, including the devil's spine, to a mysterious and disappearing white tribe or civilization.
It is common even in professional archaeology and anthropology.
Another example of this trend is the Book of Mormon, which claims that members of ten tribes lost by Israel came to America and established a civilization.
Early Mormon settlers, as well as some modern Mormons, attributed these mounds and cities built by Maya and Inca to Israeli settlers.
These early theories reflected that the view of uncivilized barbarians, the mainstream native American in the West at that time, was in harmony with the evidence of ancient American civilization, and the level of technological progress was comparable to that of Europe.
European scholars know little about Native American archaeology and its cultural history, so they think it is impossible for Native Americans to build these cities and buildings because of their low technology.
Since then, archaeologists and anthropologists have learned more about native American culture in the past and now. It is generally believed that before Christopher Columbus arrived in catherine (1832), Native Americans built famous archaeological buildings.
(Commons), 1837 Most Mandan people died of smallpox, but they all lived enough and their culture was quite famous.
This gives interested researchers the opportunity to study the influence of Mandan people's living culture on Wales. So far, there seems to be not much evidence.
For example, someone tried to connect the characters in Mandan myth with maddock, such as the lonely man.
However, this lonely man has nothing in common with McDock.
He is a demigod. He participated in the creation of the world and created the flat land, while the first creator focused on the highland.
The only thing that can be associated with Murdoch is that he once walked in the primitive ocean, which is the representative of Prince Murdoch.
At present, the truth of the legend of Prince maddock is inconclusive.
It is possible that the Welsh did land in America before Columbus, but many things were wrongly attributed to them, which damaged the credibility of legends as historical reality.
Above: 1497, when Amerigo Weiss Pucci first came to the New World, he met the fair-skinned, blond natives.
(Theodore de Bry) (public domain) Author: Caleb Strom I have a bachelor's degree in earth science, but I minored in anthropology and archaeology, and studied at the Archaeological Field School. Read Mor.