MADOC
\mˈadɒk], \mˈadɒk], \m_ˈa_d_ɒ_k]\
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A Welsh prince, son of Owain Gwynedd, is said, in accordance with a tradition first published in the sixteenth century, to have sailed west about 1171 and discovered America. The first mention of this Madog is in a Welsh poem of the fourteenth century. He is not known to have existed, and the story of his discovery is not now believed by the most competent authorities.
By John Franklin Jameson
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