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  Kolumbus - ein Plagiator? - Eine dänisch-portugiesische Expedition landete schon 1473 an der Küste Amerikas ...
Er ist 78, pensionierter Oberstleutnant - und Didrik Pinings letzter direkter Nachfahre.
Da müssen Pining und Pothorst auch gerade wieder zu Hause gewesen sein.
Pining wurde Statthalter von Island, Vogt von Vardö; (in Nord-Norwegen), verschwand schließlich im Jahr der Kolumbus-Abfahrt ("gestorben außerhalb des Landes", meldeten seine Untertanen ans Königshaus; niemand weiß heute, wo).
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  Didrik Pining Information
He was the captain of a German-led, Danish-sponsored, and Portuguese-financed expedition seeking a northwestern route to Asia.
Pining is said to have landed with three ships in 1473 on Newfoundland and Labrador together with Hans Pothorst also from Hildesheim and João Vaz Corte-Real from Portugal.
Didrik Pining was a nobleman who began his career as a pirate hunting down English raiders and merchant ships in the North Atlantic.
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crossings of the German Didrik Pining 1473, sponsored by Denmark and Christopher Columbus (1492 -1500), sponsored by Spain, and those of other explorers such as John Cabot, sponsored.
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 Pining
Pining und Pothorst stammten beide aus Hildesheim, verließen aber gegen 1448 ihre Geburtsstadt.
Pining wird später Vogt in Nord-Norwegen und schließlich Statthalter von Island, wo noch heute das Piningsgesetz (Piningsdomur) seine Gültigkeit besitzt.
Von den Hildesheimern Pining und Pothorst spricht niemand, aber Kolumbus wurde berühmt.
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 John of Kolno Information
According to various sources he was one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of the Americas prior to Columbus in 1476 as steersman of Didrik Pining.
According to Joachim Lelewel (1786 - 1861) the Polish historian and cartographer, who was the first to gather all the available mentions of Johannes Scolnus, the sailor was a navigator of the fleet of Christian I of Denmark.
The fleet was commanded by two German sailors and pirate hunters Dietrich Pining and Hans Pothorst and the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real, who frequently sailed to the shores of Greenland.
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Didrik Pining, with Brideg of Killings as his bnet, is clearified to have overgrazed on the prismatic-block of Labrador in 1473.
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 History of Medieval Greenland
A Danish-Norwegian expedition sailed for Greenlands waters led by Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst at the insistence of the Portuguese to look for new lands to the west.
The Danish "Pirates" Didrik Pining and Pothorst are operating in the North Atlantic, chasing down the English (allegedly in ships outfitted by the Hanse).
Olaus Magnus mentions two pirates, Pining and Pothorst, operating between Greenland and Iceland.
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Didrik Pining was an Norwegian noble man and not >a Dane.
Pining was governor of all or part of Iceland from 1478, though without spending much time in the country.
Here is what Ingstad says about Didrik Pining in his book The Norse Discovery of America__Volume two__Universitetsforlaget 1985__ISBN 82-00-07039-5 According to Daae (1882:234ff), Didrik Pining was a Norwegian nobleman, he is described as having been governor, hirdstjori, of all Iceland and, in 1478, as one of the most famous men there.
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Phrases that include pining: didrik pining, pining for the fjords, prickly pining dining
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 INDIAN HISTORY
Didrik Pining and Pothorst established a beacon on a rock named Hvitsark to the west of Iceland.
It is believed they made a number of voyages to trade with the Norse colonists in Greenland.
Johaunes Scolvus (Skolp), a Danish explorer, with Joa Vaz Cortereal, Pining and Pothorst wintered in the Nunavut Territory (Hudson Bay).
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Bjorn was killed in another raid by English pirates.
Pining is an enigmatic figure: a Norwegian-born nobleman who began his career as a pirate hunting down English raiders and merchant ships in the North Atlantic.
He is believed by some to have sailed with some companions to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in North America in 1476.
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 Geocoin Project: Regions of Germany
It is believed that they made it to New Foundland (20 years before Columbus).
However, Didrik never returned to Hildesheim, he became governor of Iceland in 1478.
There are speculations that some of Didrik's crew later joined Columbus' expeditions...
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"Pining was rewarded bythe Danish king with his appointment as governor
It's correct and it was mentioned in one of the url I sent yesterday.
pages on net where for example Pining is discussed.
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 Newfoundland - Island Travel Tips and Island Reviews - Newfoundland Information - itsislandtime.com - printer friendly
Named a World Heritage site by UNESCO, it is believed to be the legendary Vinland settlement of explorer Leif Ericson.
Newfoundland was explored by Didrik Pining in 1473 and later by Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524, whose expedition was financed by the citizens of Lyon, under the auspices of King François I of France.
After the Vikings, the first permanent European settlers in Newfoundland were Irish fishermen, who named the island Talamh an Éisc, meaning "island of fish" in Irish Gaelic.
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 Leif Eriksson Tour to Vinland the Good (Pre-Columbian North America) from Copenhagen to New York via Elsinore, ...
- Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst lead a Danish-Portuguese expedition to Greenland/and the mouth of the Saint-Lawrence, for King Christiern I of Denmark and King Affonso of Portugal (whose representative was Joao Vaz Cortereal.)
This is a memorial for a local boy who had made it; Hans Pothorst and Didrik Pining had been sent on an expedition to Greenland and America (probably the area around the mouth of the Saint-Lawrence river) by King Christiern I who wanted to do his friend, Henry the Navigator of Portugal, a favor.
But, I think that Admiral Morison cannot quite believe that two fellow sailors can be taken seriously if they end up, as did Pining and Pothorst, prisoners of their enemies, in Hamburg, and sentenced to death "on stakes and wheels".
www.plantagenettours.com /2004/leiferiksson.html   (15738 words)

  
 History of Medieval Greenland
A Danish-Norwegian expedition sailed for Greenlands waters led by Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst at the insistance of the Portugese to look for new lands to the west.
The Danish "Pirates" Didrik Pining and Pothorst are operating in the North Atlantic, chasing down the English (allegedly in ships outfitted by the Hanse).
Columbus may have claimed that the English were in Greenland.
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This article reassesses in detail the controversy over Didrik Pining's 1473 voyage of exploration in the North Atlantic-a German-led, Danish-sponsored, Portuguese-financed expedition seeking a northwestern route to Asia.
Since 1925, when the story was first publicized, much public acceptance has been offset by pro and con arguments among German and non-German scholars.
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Isn't Kirsten Seaver talking about two Didrik Pining's in her book "The Frozen echo" ?
Looks like there might have been one younger and one elder ?, which makes it possibly that there was one Norwegian and one German Didrik Pining.
If the Norwegian nobleman Didrik Pining was a prominent member of the circle close to the king, I guess he would have been the one to be appointed to hirdstjori (governor) of Iceland and commander in chief of northern Norway.
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 The Last Viking: Symbols, Markers and Indicators
Archaeological excavations in the frozen cemetery at Herjolfsness, in extreme southwestern Greenland, recovered skeletons dressed in clothing of styles which were popular in Europe during the late 1400s.
Several vague accounts refer to a Danish or German skipper named Didrik Pining and a companion named Pothorst, who were said to have established a beacon on a rock named Hvitsark to the west of Iceland in the 1470s.
Hvitsark ("White Shirt") seems to be a traditional Icelandic name for a large glacier on the southwestern coast of Greenland.
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