Didrik Pining

Figures from modern times (20th century) of Pining and his partner Pothorst by Bernhard Hoetger at the Bremen Böttcherstraße *Haus des Glockenspiels*. The image is based on the notion of them having reached America and also encountered a Native American.^[1]

Didrik Pining (c. 1430 – 1491)^[2] was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.^[3]

In 1925, researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.^[4]^[5] Some of the claims concerning Pining are controversial because information about him is, in general, relatively sparse and partially contradictory.^[3]

^ Hughes, 2004, p. 513.
^ Hughes, 2004, pp. 504 and 506.
^ ^a ^b "Didrik Pining". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 6 October 2010.
^ Hughes, 2004, p. 503.
^ "Expedition to Newfoundland 1472". Medieval Histories. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 18 May 2021.

[1] Hughes, 2004, p. 513.

[2] Hughes, 2004, pp. 504 and 506.

[DidrikPiningSNL-3] "Didrik Pining". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 6 October 2010.

[4] Hughes, 2004, p. 503.

[5] "Expedition to Newfoundland 1472". Medieval Histories. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 18 May 2021.

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