henchman171 t1_iw4cvqv wrote on November 12, 2022 at 9:32 PM

Reply to comment by FloraFauna2263 in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

A lot of people are forgetting that the black plague wiped out a lot of people.

However the Irish might escaped the worse and could have fished in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia

Which means they could have been travelling to Newfoundland on dry in the mid 1400s. They had plenty contact with the English and Vikings and trading with them and would have had knowledge of Viking exploits a few centuries earlier

The reason I mention the plague. There were continual outbreaks in the near east and Central Asia and Europeans might have just stayed away and the Silk Road closes when the ottomans take over Constantinople meaning Europeans turn to explore the western ocean

Kjartanski t1_iw4nkwp wrote on November 12, 2022 at 10:51 PM

It wasnt a few centuries earlier, the last known norse date in Greenland is in the 1430s

henchman171 t1_iw4qnxi wrote on November 12, 2022 at 11:14 PM

But the coin was in Newfoundland.

So how does it get to Newfoundland before Cabot.

Did it go via Greenland? Did the English trade or share voyages to Greenland in the 1400s The Irish or Scots would have? Did the Greenland colonies trade with Newfoundland before 1497?

Kjartanski t1_iw4ro3s wrote on November 12, 2022 at 11:22 PM

Thats more difficult to answer, my shot in the dark is a lost ship landing in ~1440-1500