World History
I stumbled upon a possible revisionist site today. It is titled Madoc: Where the Welsh the First European Americans? It is by an amateur historian Howard Kimberley. It tells the legend of Welsh prince Madoc colonizing the New World and settling eventually in Missouri. The Mandan Tribe took in the Welsh and eventually had both cultural and genetic traits of the Europeans.
I find the site speculative at best. If this is true, why did the Mandans get his so hard by Small Pox in 1781 when 40,000 were reduced to 2,000? I imagine European descendants would have more immunity than that. Even if this theory is correct, the Welsh would not have been the first Europeans. The Norse were in North America before 1170. I guess this is a creative use of legends. If this story is true, DNA testing ought to be able to prove it.
From the site:
The story of MADOC, a Welsh prince, who is reputed to have discovered America in 1170, over 300 years before Columbus, has fascinated me for many years.
It is said that he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Wales, a small country on the western side of the British mainland, which together with Ireland, Scotland and England, make up the British Isles.
Many believe that he and his followers initially settled in the Georgia/Tennessee/Kentucky area, eventually moving to the Upper Missouri, where they were assimilated into a tribe called the Mandans. New evidence is also emerging about a small band of MADOC's followers who remained in the Ohio area and are called 'White Madoc'.
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World History
Did the Welsh Discover America?
I stumbled upon a possible revisionist site today. It is titled Madoc: Where the Welsh the First European Americans? It is by an amateur historian Howard Kimberley. It tells the legend of Welsh prince Madoc colonizing the New World and settling eventually in Missouri. The Mandan Tribe took in the Welsh and eventually had both cultural and genetic traits of the Europeans.
I find the site speculative at best. If this is true, why did the Mandans get his so hard by Small Pox in 1781 when 40,000 were reduced to 2,000? I imagine European descendants would have more immunity than that. Even if this theory is correct, the Welsh would not have been the first Europeans. The Norse were in North America before 1170. I guess this is a creative use of legends. If this story is true, DNA testing ought to be able to prove it.
From the site:
The story of MADOC, a Welsh prince, who is reputed to have discovered America in 1170, over 300 years before Columbus, has fascinated me for many years.
It is said that he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Wales, a small country on the western side of the British mainland, which together with Ireland, Scotland and England, make up the British Isles.
Many believe that he and his followers initially settled in the Georgia/Tennessee/Kentucky area, eventually moving to the Upper Missouri, where they were assimilated into a tribe called the Mandans. New evidence is also emerging about a small band of MADOC's followers who remained in the Ohio area and are called 'White Madoc'.
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