1170 How The Welsh Discovered America English Edition. Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English. A Welsh poem of the 15th century tells how Prince Madoc sailed away in 10 ships and discovered America.
Review of another edition. Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd son of a king of Wales was born in 1150 the story goes. America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 AD.
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Madoc also spelled Madog ab Owain Gwynedd was according to folklore a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170 over three hundred years before Christopher Columbuss voyage in 1492. The account of the discovery of America by a Welsh prince whether truth or myth was apparently used by Queen Elizabeth I as evidence to the British claim to America during its territorial struggles with Spain. English Character set encoding. Young Prince Madoc of Wales may have discovered America in 1170 or 322 years before Columbus arrived according to British historian Richard Deacon in his book Madoc and the Discovery of America.