Scene in Iceland

From his voyage to Iceland, which was called the Last Thule in classic geography, Columbus became convinced that there was a land to the west. The Vikings had made daring expeditions up to the East Meadows in Newfoundland and to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, southeast of Boston. But theirs was not a discovery, or rather it was a "lost discovery." "To discover"means to arrive, to come back and to bring the news of the discovery.