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Looking at John Cabot for another thread I came across an Irish myth of the Island of Hy-Brazil, and how expeditions were sent from Bristol to find it in 1480 and 1481. When Cabot returned in 1497 it was said that he landed in Brasil than men from Bristol had discovered in the past. So WI one of these expeditions from Bristol had actually found something in 1480/1? WI the idea that men from Bristol had found Nth America 17 years before Cabot was true?

Considering Columbus initial voyage lead to the Papal Bull splitting the world in half in 1494 and Cabot's voyage in 1497 what would a Bristol discovery mean? Would Columbus sail a decade earlier? Would a Papal Bull be announced before the Portuguese even reached the Cape of Good Hope?
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