Christopher Columbus was Scottish

**mexpiper** · 9th March 09, 03:51 PM

hello Folks,

I saw this and thought I would share it!.....
A historian in Spain, says that Christopher Columbus was not Italian, but Scottish.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rian-says.html

So that means Saint Brendan(an Irish man) landed in the New World, followed by a Scot..
"t is well established that Columbus went to look for St. Brendan’s Isle when he discovered the West Indies. As a student of the University of Pavia, Columbus would have learned of Brendan’s voyage from the manuscripts brought there, seven hundred years previously, by Dugal, student and founder of the University of Pavia. On the eve of his great voyage in 1492 he wrote: “I am convinced that the terrestrial paradise is in the Island of Saint Brendan, which none can reach save by the Will of God."

**Bryan** · 9th March 09, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by mexpiper

So that means Saint Brendan(an Irish man) landed in the New World, followed by a Scot..

There is absolutely no archaeological evidence that suggests St. Brendan ever made it anywhere in North America. The first evidence of Europeans in the New World is the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, dated to around AD 1000.

It's an interesting take on Columbus, though I doubt he was Scottish.

**Nick the DSM** · 9th March 09, 04:56 PM

any tangible proof???

**Gunnar** · 9th March 09, 05:19 PM

America was discovered by an ICELANDER!

**Bugbear** · 9th March 09, 05:29 PM

Um... I'm open to conjectures that there is a great deal of unknown and lost history, but I don't know about this one...

**SFCRick** · 9th March 09, 05:55 PM

Being of Native American blood also ( 1/8 Mowhawk), I still find it funny that anyone can think someone " discovered" any place where people already lived.

**greenman11** · 9th March 09, 06:45 PM

Actually they all came over on a Fullbright schollarship. Colombus later opened an Italian restaurant in Manhattan NY.

Thank you Stan Freeburg for my historical perspective.

Regards,

**7 miles** · 9th March 09, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by SFCRick

Being of Native American blood also ( 1/8 Mowhawk), I still find it funny that anyone can think someone " discovered" any place where people already lived.

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**Bryan** · 9th March 09, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by SFCRick

Being of Native American blood also ( 1/8 Mowhawk), I still find it funny that anyone can think someone " discovered" any place where people already lived.

True, the Indians were not native to North America either so they were the first "discoverers."