![]() ![]() The only blot on this glory is that everyone knows America got its name from Glamorgan's Richard ap Meurig (Amerik), a wealthy sponsor of John Cabot's search for the north-west passage in the 1490s. ![]() ![]() Sinclair's masonic star, or "la merika", duly gave its name to the continent and merits a Da Vinci saga all of its own. He and his freemasons escaped with assorted treasures and holy grails to settle in Nova Scotia with the Micmac Indians (clearly a tribe of Hiberno-Scots ancestry). Brendan and Madoc were followed by a Scottish knight templar, Henry Sinclair, seeking refuge from the suppression of his order in 1398. The survivors of this trip remain pickled in a downtown Boston saloon to this day. He sailed to America in a leather-bound coracle, as Tim Severin proved in 1977. Unfortunately Madoc's arrival had been forestalled by St Brendan in the seventh century. Making his way across country, he settled west of the Mississippi, where the Mandan tribe were encountered in the 18th century, fair-skinned and speaking a dialect of Welsh. He landed at Mobile, Alabama, on the orders of the family druid and asserted Wales's claim to King Arthur's North Atlantic empire. This comes as a surprise to those of us who know for a fact that America was discovered by Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd in 1170. ![]()
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