The Pining Expedition
It is has been claimed that in the 1470s, a fleet of several Danish ships sponsored by Christian I of Denmark set sail from Norway westwards to Greenland. The fleet was commanded by two German sailors and pirate hunters, Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst, and the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real. It has been claimed that from the Western coast of Greenland they may have reached the North American mainland.
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Famous quotes containing the words pining and/or expedition:
“I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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