There is a tradition in Wales that about the year 1170, Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd sailed  
across the Atlantic and landed on the shores of what is now North America.

Wales, a country on the western side of the British mainland, which together with Ireland, Scotland and
England make up the British Isles.



Trying to unravel the facts from the fictions that accrete  around tales such as this is no easy task.  The story was embellished in the Elizabethan period for political purposes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
By collecting all the pieces of evidence and putting them together, we hope that a clearer picture will eventually emerge.
                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Coat of Arms of the House of Gwynedd 
    Coat of Arms, attributed                                                                                                                                                                  as adopted by Llywelyn Fawr 
       to Owain Gwynedd                                                                                                                                                                       (The Great), Madoc's nephew
           Madoc's father

          
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