Pre-Columbian Expeditions To America

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>>>> [...] A Viking Thyng [...] you wouldn't understand [...]
>>> [...] Leif "the Lucky" Ericsson [...]
>> [...] St. Brendan [...]
> [...] Amerigo Vespucci [...]

I dimly recall reading a book proposing that there was a
Chinese expedition to the New World and back even before
1000 AD (when the Norse came here).

Apparently, an account of an explorers travels across
the Pacific that were long regarded as fanciful accurately
described American fauna such as sea otters.  The authors
of this book also point a creation myth in China that explains
how the gods created the Grand Canyon.  Their theory was
that these Chinese explorers crossed near the Aleutians,
travelled along the coast to Central America, went
over land to the Yucatan, then made new ships to sail
across the Gulf of Mexico, thereby creating that Aztec
legend of pale-skinned, bearded men "from the east"
associated with feathered serpents (Chinese dragons?)
that benefited Cortez centuries later.

-- Alfredo
 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
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