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Who were the first Old World navigators to land in the Americas?

The Irish

Leprechauns speak out!: Did the Irish discover America?

And, oh, yes, it’s a good possibility that dear old Saint Brendan was the European who discovered America.

That’s right, Saint Brendan may have been the one to discover America—way before Leif Ericsson explored the North Atlantic or Christopher Columbus set sail for the Orient.

When a large seaside rock with inscriptions on it resembling Irish letters was discovered in Newfoundland a few years ago, it led Canada’s national archivist to declare, “There is no doubt that Irish monks reached our shores before the Vikings.”

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