an Italian chronicler described America 150 years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus

“On this earth, there are buildings with stone slabs so huge that no one could build with them, except huge giants,” says the “Cronica Universalis” of the fourteenth century.

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“There are also green trees, animals and a lot of birds. However, no sailor could know anything with certainty about this land or its characteristics “, add the text.

Markland was mentioned by some Icelandic sources and identified by scholars as a part of the Atlantic coast of North America. “The Galvaneus reference, probably derived from oral sources heard in Genoa, is the first mention of the American continent in the Mediterranean region “, the study maintains.

Chiesa stated that “these rumors about Markland were too vague to find consistency in cartographic or academic representations”, explaining why Marckalada it was not classified as a new land at that moment.

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Illustration of Christopher Columbus arriving in America, October 12, 1492

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In turn, according to him ‘Cronica universalis’ “provides unprecedented evidence to the hypothesis that the news about the American continent, derived from Nordic sources, circulated in Italy a century and a half before the arrival of Columbus “.

Chiesa believes that the Genoese sailors could have brought scattered news about these lands to the city. “The Marckalada to which travelers refer must be the Markland of the Vikings and the idea that giants live there comes from ancient norse legends“, sums up the Italian researcher.

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