Prince Henry in the New World

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

The following information appeared in The Scotsman dated 26th September, 2000


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Trust all is well with you. Many thanks for your untiring efforts in making
the gathering the greatest.
Don Sinclair
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 >
 > > The Scotsman Online - 26 Sep 2000
 > >
 > > Stone suggests Scot was first to land in Canada
 > >
 > > David Montgomery
 > >
 > > IT HAS lain undisturbed for
 > > almost 600 years gathering moss by
 > > the side of a Canadian
 > > lake. But now, after enduring centuries
 > > of rain and sun, the rock
 > > has revealed a secret which could
 > > change the history of North
 > > America.
 > >
 > > It is claimed that carvings
 > > on the boulder provide further proof
 > > that a Scottish nobleman
 > > discovered the New World almost a
 > > century before Christopher
 > > Columbus,
 > >
 > > Henry Sinclair, Baron of
 > > Roslin and Earl of Orkney, is said to
 > > have landed in North
 > > America in 1398 in what is now Nova
 > > Scotia in Canada.
 > >
 > > Evidence for this voyage
 > > first surfaced in an obscure medieval
 > > document, the Zeno
 > > Narrative, thought to have been
 > > composed about 1400 by two
 > > navigators in Sinclair's service.
 > >
 > > American historian
 > > Frederick Pohl presented geographic
 > > evidence in his book Prince
 > > Henry Sinclair that the settlement
 > > in "Estotiland" had been in
 > > Nova Scotia. The same theory had
 > > earlier been presented in
 > > the journal Scientific Monthly in 1951
 > > by a geologist at the
 > > University of Michigan.
 > >
 > > Now the discovery of the
 > > disfigured boulder on the shores of
 > > Lake Memphremagog, 60 miles
 > > south-east of Montreal and
 > > close to the US border,
 > > appears to confirm that the Scottish
 > > nobleman did step ashore
 > > more than 600 years ago.
 > >
 > > One of the carvings shows
 > > the outline of Sinclair's
 > > coat-of-arms as reproduced
 > > in an obscure 14th-century
 > > heraldry book. Another
 > > illustration opposite the coat-of-arms
 > > appears to be a fairly
 > > accurate map of the North American
 > > Atlantic coast from Yucatan
 > > to Nova Scotia.
 > >
 > > Michael Bradley, the author
 > > of Grail Knights of North America ,
 > > said the carvings suggested
 > > that after landing in Nova Scotia,
 > > Sinclair's settlers
 > > relocated to Lake Memphremagog.
 > >
 > > He said the site may have
 > > been chosen because it offered
 > > safety to "heretics"
 > > fleeing religious persecution in Europe;
 > > Sinclair was a known patron
 > > of refugee Knights Templar,
 > > created around 1114-1118 to
 > > guard the Holy Grail.
 > >
 > > "The Knights Templar were
 > > accused of heresy and hunted by
 > > the Inquisition. Many
 > > Templars took refuge in Scotland
 > > between 1307-1314 after the
 > > papal dissolution of their order.
 > > Therefore, there's the
 > > distinct possibility that a European
 > > community around Lake
 > > Memphremagog was populated by
 > > religious 'heretics' or
 > > dissidents," Mr Bradley said.
 > >
 > > The Zeno Narrative
 > > describes a fairly large expedition across
 > > the Atlantic, and infers
 > > several hundred people stayed behind
 > > to populate the settlement
 > > Sinclair founded. A populous colony
 > > would inevitably have
 > > explored its new country, and there is
 > > some evidence pre-Columbian
 > > Europeans penetrated inland
 > > along the St John and
 > > Connecticut rivers.
 > >
 > > Mr Bradley said they may
 > > have moved from the original landing
 > > point in Nova Scotia
 > > because it was seen as being too
 > > vulnerable to discovery by
 > > ships exploring for heretics.
 > >
 > > "Lake Memphremagog would
 > > not be obvious to marauding
 > > European mari-ners," he
 > > said. "If the Memph-remagog region
 > > did become the 'capital' of
 > > Sinclair's refugee population, this
 > > would explain [the] boulder
 > > - it was symbolic of the refugees'
 > > loyalties and their
 > > domain."
 > >
 > > He said the discovery would
 > > be easier to dismiss were it not for
 > > two older finds across Lake
 > > Memphremagog. A stone-carved
 > > "gargoyle" was found, in
 > > the mid-eighties in a stream-bed. In
 > > 1998, two Toronto art
 > > historians said that the gargoyle
 > > resembled
 > > Celtic-Scandinavian sculpture of AD 1400-1500, and
 > > especially resembled the
 > > Apprentice Pillar at Roslin Chapel
 > > outside Edinburgh.
 > >
 >
Niven Sinclair

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