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Date Posted: 05:14:22 11/24/05 Thu
Discovery and Early History of The Eggemoggin Reach:
Your messages here have inspired me to delve deeply into the history, origins and discovery of the Reach Haven area, and it appears to me, from Icelandic runic texts, that after Leif the Lucky settled for a season or so in Lans-au-Meadeaux (Lonzo Meadows), in an attempt to escape the constant hounding of the Skraelings, they sailed around Avalon and eventually WSW along the Southern edge of Nova Scotia, around Cape Sable, NW to Yarmouth, into the dead end of St. Mary's Bay, back down to Brier Island, then pure Westward latitude sailing across the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine, under Bass Harbor on Mt. Desert Island. past a few small islands and under the mainland (Maine Land) Southeast of Brooklin, then onto Deer Isle and WNW up the Eggemoggin Reach. After completely traversing the Reach, the Vikings sailed in a generally Southerly Direction until they arrived at Isle au Haut where they encountered very friendly dark-skinned native females who spoke French and identified their home as "Ile-o-Ho". After a fortnight of the island's comforts, the island's men returned from fishing and hunting, causing the Lief's small band to beat a hasty retreat, sailing due East along Latitude 44 degrees across the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy, arriving at Port Maitland, North of Yarmouth on the Southwest end of Nova Scotia and eventually back to Greenland, from whence the original venture was launched. Since the time of the banishment of Eric the Red (Lief Ericson's father) had expired, the band soon travelled, with other Vikings, back to Iceland. Some took the account on to Norway, and the historical account eventually made its way to Ireland, Wales and the Breton peninsula of France, where priestly scribes recorded the story in French and Latin.
From archealogical dating, placing Lief's band in Newfoundland at 1000 AD, the first recorded transversing of the Reach by Europeans would have been in 1001 AD. By that time, the Native Americans had completed the feat with their eyes closed on occasions too numerous to mention. Since then, persons of many ethnicities and national origins have travelled the Reach. Only last week, the first pureblood Aboriginal Australian completed a solo non-stop transversing of the Reach. When asked by a Stonington reporter to comment on the Reach after the completion of the feat, the pioneer replied "Much wetter than Outback."
While studying "Early Voyages and Pre-Columbian Western Hempisphere", some of my students have posed a most interesting question which I am unable to answer.
According to Zella Armstrong in her bestselling "Who Discovered America?", America was discovered by:
1- an Irish Monk in 600 A.D. (Brendan)
2- the Vikings in 980 A.D. (Ericcson & others)
3- Madoc, a Welsh Prince, in 1170 A.D.
4- the Portugese, with a largely Turkish crew, in 1450
and others, including the Italian Zemo Brothers
and the Phoenicians, perhaps Before the Common Era (B.C.E.),
all before Columbus landed in the West Indies
thinking he had landed in the East Indies
and had found a Western route to India & China.
Saint Brendan sailed back to Ireland and wrote an account of his travels. The Vikings settled in America and had frequent forays here even when the settlements were abandaoned, but some stayed. The Welsh stayed here and taught their language to several native tribes. The Portugese and Turks went inland across the Appalachians and left descendants whom we know as the Melungeons.
Columbus landed in the islands and tortured and stole from the natives. Columbus never set foot on the North American mainland. Praise be to God, Columbus never compromised the integrity of the blessed Reach. He never came within a thousand miles.
Why do some states still celebrate Columbus Day in honor of this ruthless butcher?
Any ideas?
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