ARCTIC The Hanseatic League and Hanse Towns in the Early Penetration of the North
his banished father, and continued further west. This happened in loo0 A.D., when the Icelander Leif Eiriksson failed to reach Greenland, was driven ashore at the Labrador coast, and reached Newfoundland. The second discovery was that of Christophorus Columbus. Some scholars think that 20.years earl...
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| Summary: | his banished father, and continued further west. This happened in loo0 A.D., when the Icelander Leif Eiriksson failed to reach Greenland, was driven ashore at the Labrador coast, and reached Newfoundland. The second discovery was that of Christophorus Columbus. Some scholars think that 20.years earlier, about 1473 (Kohl, 1932:152.-177), two privateers of the Danish king, Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst, landed in Labrador, which seems to be hypothetic. Reliable documents tell that Pining and Pothorst followed the same path as Eirik Raudi and his son Leif Eiriksson when asked by King Chris-tian I to look for new islands in the North (Moltmann, 1972:76). None of these explorers set out to look.for a continent, and all of them were sent by kings- or driven out by administra-tion of justice in the name of a king- to the utmost periphery |
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