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A comment on Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland Map.

Re:Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland... by sys_64738 on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:13PM (#18168702)
Saint Brendan of Clonfert discovered America. The rest arrived after the fact.
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Re:Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland... by Triesault on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:38PM (#18169490)
"Although the Irish had reached and even established a religious community in Iceland before A.D. 800, there is nothing to connect Brendan with this venture. Nor is there any reliable evidence to show that either Brendan or any of his countrymen had ever reached Greenland or America."

Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brendan_saint_1E.html

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Re:Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland... by moate on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:34PM (#18168885)
*was the first European to land in America(Maybe).

Fixed!

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