After difficulties of Aragon and Castille during the Grenada expedition , Columbus looses hope for support and goes North. He travels to Kopenhagen and asks the king of Denmark for money for an expedition to India through the Western route. The Danish King orders him to sail to Island first and than find and reclaim Greenland on his way , the colony, that had been lost for decades, now .
In 1494, after researching scriptures of old Norse sagas Columbus and a little fleet of Holks and Caravels sails West. Danish, Norwegian and German sailors had been hired and conscripted to take part in the expedition.