Pre-columbian transoceanic contact theories
Were africans in america before native americans
Trans-pacific migration theory.
Didrik Pining facts for kids
The image is based on the notion of them having reached America and also encountered a Native American.
Didrik Pining (c. – ) was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.
Historians Sofus Larson and Thomas P.
Hughes have proposed that he may have landed in North America in the s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery. Some of the claims concerning Pining are controversial because information about him is, in general, relatively sparse and partially contradictory.
Biography
Early life
Didrik Pining has been found by modern German genealogists to have been a native of Hildesheim in Germany, and this has according to a report been "suddenly and conclusively proved." It had been assumed that he was a Dane or Norwegian until the s.
In Hanseatic records unt