Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd (also spelled Madog) was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over 300 years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in …

Nov 24, 2020 · Madoc’s Mark: The Persistence of an Alabama Legend. Historian John Sledge explores the riddle of Prince Madoc, the Welsh explorer who, according to legend, discovered …

A.D. 1170 -- Embittered by the tyranny of the Engl… In the name of freedom, they carved out a life in …

Jan 1, 2001 · Three centuries before Columbus, he landed on the southern coast of North America and there founded a colony of free Welsh in fertile but alien terrain. As they sought to …

Prince Madoc leads a group of Welsh men, women, and children as they flee from the English tyranny of twelfth-century Wales to the New World, where they encounter the hardships of …

This book tells the amazing saga of the 12th century Welsh seafarer, Prince Madoc, whose name has become renown in the annals of ancient maritime history.

This legend of the twelfth century did not gain literary popularity until the sixteenth century, which leads to the question —why the gap?. Retellings of the Madoc story appeared in works by …