Madoc
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madoc-176-5800414
title:
Madoc
text:
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwynedd, and took to the sea to flee internecine violence at home. The "Madoc story" legend evidently evolved out of a medieval tradition about a Welsh hero's sea voyage, to which only allusions survive. However, it attained its greatest prominence during the Elizabethan era, when
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Folkloric Welsh prince and explorer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc
date created:
2004-07-08T03:41:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:43:34Z
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13
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