The Pining Expedition
It is has been claimed that in the 1470s, a fleet of several Danish ships sponsored by Christian I of Denmark set sail from Norway westwards to Greenland. The fleet was commanded by two German sailors and pirate hunters, Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst, and the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real. It has been claimed that from the Western coast of Greenland they may have reached the North American mainland.
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