Evidence suggests that the Earl of Orkney, Prince Henry St Clair (later Sinclair), established a colony in Nova Scotia (New Scotland) in modern day Canada. Henry St Clair/Sinclair was descended from an important family of England and Scotland who first arrived in the British Isles during the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066. It is from a work published in 1558, written by Nicolò Zeno (a Venetian) and commonly known as the Zeno Narrative that the idea of a colony first appears. It was claimed that the Zeno Narrative was based on the letters of two brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, and their voyage to the New World in the late 1390s with a Prince of Scotland that they identified as Zichmni. Interestingly, it was a friend of the famous Captain Cook that first identified Zichmni with Henry St Clair/Sinclair. The first to verify the Zeno Narrative as genuine was Johann Reinhold Forster in the 1780s. Over the following years, much more evidence has come to light to support the claims. Much of the evidence is in written form, but some is in a more accessible form, for example the Westford Knight in Massachusetts which is a stone carving of a knight from the Middle Ages period. There is also a building on Rhode Island known as the Newport Tower which is northern European in style. This suggests an early link between the two continents. Also of great interest is that there are carvings of what appear to be plants found only in America inside Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, which was built in 1446 by the grandson of Prince Henry St Clair. Article Source: EzineArticles/5771092
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:20:14 +0000
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