Didrik Pining

Figures from modern times (20th century) of Pining and his partner Pothorst by Bernhard Hoetger at the Bremen Böttcherstraße Haus des Glockenspiels. The image is based on the notion of them having reached America and also encountered a Native American.[1]

Didrik Pining (c. 1430 – 1491)[2] was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.[3]

In 1925, researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.[4][5] Some of the claims concerning Pining are controversial because information about him is, in general, relatively sparse and partially contradictory.[3]

  1. ^ Hughes, 2004, p. 513.
  2. ^ Hughes, 2004, pp. 504 and 506.
  3. ^ a b "Didrik Pining". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 6 October 2010.
  4. ^ Hughes, 2004, p. 503.
  5. ^ "Expedition to Newfoundland 1472". Medieval Histories. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 18 May 2021.