Who discovered America?

[homer]

Is there any real evidence that the Vikings got to North America before Columbus?

[Marco]

I think they found some evidence of nordic settlements on Newfoundland, just off the coast Eastern Canada, similar to the kind of settlements found in Greenland

[catman]

Settlements in Newfoundland have been excavated and confirmed. Leif Ericcson was the first Viking to document a visit to the coast of the New World, charting perhaps as far south as Manhattan. He called the inhabitants 'skraelings', those 'wrinkled by the sun'. Several other Europeans can be proved to have arrived in the New World before Columbus, including Antonio Zini who came to Nova Scotia in 1398, and numerous English fishermen working out of Bristol, who told John Cabot about the cod harvests and timber available in Newfoundland.

[lilshorty247]

um niether the vikings nor the christopher columbus discovered america, the people who simply discovered america was the native americans.