Into the eleventh century there were many minor raids, such as against the Portuguese coast in 10, and Olaf Haraldsson, later King Olaf II of Norway, led a fleet to raid Asturias and Galicia while on his way round to Jerusalem in 1015 AD. Two examples of these raids are those which occurred in 966 AD when 28 Viking boats attacked Lisbon, and another in 968 AD according to Historia Silense, when Gundered sailed a fleet of one hundred ships of Norsemen and Flemings against the coast of Galicia, northern Spain. The evidence for Viking activities along the Atlantic coast of Iberia after 861 AD is sparse for the best part of the next hundred years until the raids picked up again from 960 AD. Viking Activities on the Iberian Atlantic Coast
Accordingly, almost five hundred years before the voyage of Columbus, it would seem that Viking boats reached the farthest point south of their Atlantic explorations known to date by being 869 km (540 miles) south-west of Sagres, the southernmost tip of Portugal, and 876 km (545 miles) west of Casablanca. Such a voyage does not challenge the Columbus dogma directly. Science now accepts as reasonable the probability that Vikings from Denmark and Schleswig reached the Atlantic island of Madeira. Similarly, this present report highlights a strange new omission that is evidence of a Viking visit to Madeira.
I was proposed that this had been done in order to protect the academic dogma that Columbus was first to the Americas. In a recent article on the Vikings in South America, it was indicated how scientists had put forward an untenable theory to account for the presence in Chile of the Bundsö dogs from Denmark before Columbus.
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