Who

Discovered
America?

by Dimitar Alekseev Dimitrov © MMXX

 PREFACE
I have several previously unknown answers to the question “Who Discovered America?” Each and every
one of them is much more accurate than the answer “Columbus”, which was accepted by the contemporary,
well educated human society, for couple of hundreds of years until recently.

Here are just some of them:

1. America has never been discovered!

Can’t argue with that! There are human bones and artifacts from 300 million years BP, found in Illinois,
which demonstrate that the human species first emerged in North America!

2. America was first inhabited not by Asians, but by Europeans! So it cannot be “discovered” once
again by the same people…

Can’t argue with that either! In 1970, a stone tool – a biface, said to resemble Solutrean (Paleo-Iberian
culture from c. 18000 BC) stone tools, was found off the east coast of Virginia. The “Solutrean solution”
now suggests that Solutreans may have crossed from Europe to North America along the ice bridge that
connected the two continents during the Ice age.

3. Iernians (proto-Irish) and Albiones (proto-Britons) settled in New England in 3rd millennium BC!

They sure did! Check out the numerous megalithic chambers in New England. They have architectural
resemblances only on the British Isles…

4. America was discovered by Irish and/or British Christians in 8th or 9th century AD!

Of course it was! There are many long boat-houses and stone towers along the shores of Hudson Strait.
Some of them were used around 8th – 9th century AD. Some of the towers look like Pictish brochs. And we
know that the Vikings did not entered in that area…

5. America was discovered by Vikings in the late 10th century AD!

L’anse aux Meadows village stands in Newfoundland, Canada, as a solid argument… At least, these were
the first Europeans who set foot on American soil, which names were written and preserved.

Because of all these facts, I see no point in the question “Who Discovered America?”

But because these facts are very interesting, I decided to write this small paper. To shed further light on
this matter. I hope the reader will find it useful!

I already wrote about the Solutrean sites in my 29th paper “Earliest Traces of Human Activity in North
America”; and about the megalithic chambers in New England – in my 26th paper, “Who Built The
Megalithic Chambers in the Northeastern States?” They both are available at:
https://www.scribd.com/user/290795459/Dimitar-Dimitrov
https://independent.academia.edu/DimitarAlekseevDimitrov
 So here I will continue to explain the facts about the first Europeans in North America with examples
from the Christ Era.

America was discovered by Irish and/or British Christians!

Material evidences:

8th – 9th century AD boat-houses, brochs and towers of European origin in Ungava peninsula, Canada.

The whole story:

The famous Canadian scientist and author Farley Mowat claimed that Iceland, Greenland and North
America were visited before the Vikings, by Europeans from the British Isles. He called these mysterious
unknown people “Albans” (I prefer the term Albions), after the earliest name of Britain – Albion. These
people were of the ancient British and Pictish tribes, the biggest of which were resp. the Brigantes and the
Caledoni. In my opinion, knowing that there was no Celtic invasion on the British Isles, but only Roman one
(cfr. Pryor, Fr. Britain BC.), they were running away from the legions of Rome or from the next invaders –
the Saxons. Or maybe they just went fishing too far…

The northern route to America, via Iceland, was mentioned as early as 4th century BC by the Greek
explorer Pytheas, who reached Thule (Iceland) in 330 BC and wrote that it is located at “six days’ sail to the
north of Britain”. Then, the ancient Greek historian Timaeus (c. 345 – c. 250 BC) spoke of the island of
Mictis: “within six days' sail of Britannia, in which white load is found; and that the Britons sail over to it in
boats of osier, covered with sewed hides.” (Pliny. Nat. Hist. Book IV, 30. John Bostock ed.) Which confirms
that the British travelled to Iceland at least from the 4th century BC, if not earlier.

Several Roman coins from 3rd and 4th century AD, found in Iceland, confirm that there was some trade
between the island and Britain at that time.

Around 550 AD, an Irish monk – St. Brendan travelled to Thule, and maybe even further, where he
visited newly found Christian congregations.

On Heimaey Island, near Iceland, were found traces of settlement from at least 250 years before the
coming of the Vikings.

The British historian Bede had the information of Pytheas’ voyage and he quoted it in his “On The Nature
of Things and On Times” in early 8th century AD. “De mensura Orbis terrae” by the Irish monk Dicuil
mentions late 8th century AD voyage to Iceland.

All these facts confirm quite clear that the route to Thule (Iceland) was pretty well known in Britain,
centuries before the Viking invasion on the island. And we must have in mind that the Saxon invasion in
Britain (5th century AD) pushed a large wave of people from east to west. On the island and beyond it – in
Wales and Ireland. It is very possible that some of them went even further – to Thule.

Unfortunately, we don’t have any records left of these people and we didn’t even know their names. But
we know for sure that they were already living on the island, when the Vikings came… And, because of the
Viking invasion, they decided to move even further – to Greenland, North America.

The earliest sources on the Vikings’ presence in Iceland are the Íslendingabók (“Book of the Icelanders”,
written by Icelandic chronicler Ari Þorgilsson between 1122 and 1133 AD) and the Landnámabók (“Book of
the Settlements”, c. 13th century AD, possibly dating from the 11th century AD in its original form).
According to the Landnámabók, the first settler in Iceland was Naddodd the Viking (c. 830 AD) who
discovered Iceland when he was blown off course on his way to the Faeroe Islands…

etc. etc.

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