Evidence Irish Monks Discovered America before the Vikings

Did Irish monks discover America before the Vikings? The answer may actually be, yes!
While nobody takes issue with the idea Ireland's St. Brendan the Navigator explored vast swaths of the Atlantic Ocean for years, the distance he traveled is hotly debated; some maintain he never left the British Isles, others say he made it to Iceland and Greenland, and a select vocal minority steadfastly claim he was the first European to discover America.
While curious rock carvings and certain megalithic structures found throughout the United States' northeast and Canada's east coast are cause for speculation of an Irish discovery of America, rather than sifting through the peculiar etches in these stones, let's focus on clues the Voyage of St. Brendan provides us, because the best evidence medieval Irish monks touched foot on North American soil before the Vikings did may in fact be the story itself.
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Referenced Videos
The Voyage of St. Brendan the Navigator: • The Voyage of St. Bren...
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Sources
The Voyage of St.Brendan the Abbot; Edition by Archbishop P. F. Moran; Translated by Denis O'Donoghue in 1893.
The European Discovery of America by Samuel Eliot Morison.
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
The Geographica by Strabo
Histories by Polybius
Selected Writings of Pliny the Elder including Natural History
The Greek Exploration of Britain, Thule, the Arctic, and the Amber Coast by Kobean History [UA-cam video]
The Book of the Settlement of Iceland by Ari Thorgilsson; translated by Thomas Ellwood
The Saga of St. Olaf
The Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of the Greenlanders
The Eyrbyggja Saga
Longest sea-level fogs record by Guinness World Records
Visibility Near Zero by Jaime Lowe; published by The New York Times
How Greenland would look without its ice sheet by Jonathan Amos; published by BBC
History of Forests in Iceland; published by Icelandic Forest Service
Forest Industries; published by Newfoundland Heritage
This is original content based on research by Nick Dunehew. Each image used has been carefully sourced and is considered within the Public Domain. As very few images of the actual events are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.
Time Stamps
00:00-02:21 The Voyage of St. Brendan
02:22-03:39 The Curragh
03:40-04:45 Real-World Locations
04:46-05:55 Ancient Discovery of Iceland
05:56-07:05 Hermit Lifestyle
07:06-08:22 Irish Monks in Iceland
08:23-11:56 Vikings Reported Irish Monks in America
11:57-12:44 Irish Monks and Native Americans
12:45-15:44 St. Brendan's Mysterious Guide
15:45-19:26 The Foggiest Place on Earth
19:27-21:04 Midnight Sun
21:05-21:57 Greenland
21:58-24:04 Iceland
24:05-25:19 The Gulf of St. Lawrence
25:20-26:52 St. Brendan's Island Never Existed
26:53-27:54 Where the Answer Lies

[@Irish780]

That is absolutely true we in Ireland was told down through generations brendan found usa ..... of course nobody believes they irish we never colonised so not taken seriously in Europe

[@nickdunehew]

Oh I have a feeling northern, near-arctic voyages to America are less understood than they ought to be