Amerindians and Inuits in Europe, before Columbus

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   There are thousand of wild claims about people of the old world navigating to the New World in pre-Columbian times. Almost all of them are just crap that don't stand any serious investigation at all. There are exceptions, of course. Inuits, Norse and (perhaps) Polynesians reached the Americas in recent centuries before Columbus, and there are serious evidence about these cases.
A different matter, and that at first examination seems to be an even wilder fantasy is the presence of people of the Western Hemisphere in Europe in pre-Columbian times. But, it is such a wild fantasy?

Anyways, this is a welcome topic for me, and a revenge :) ,  after seen so much fantasies about people of the Old World reaching the Americans before Columbus. 

As the matter of fact, the evidence of the presence of Amerindians in Europe exist and it is registered in historical records. They are well documented, and they are also part of the possible sources from where columbus got his inspiration to reach the Indies navigating to the West.

Let's discuss then if Amerindians and/or Inuits reached Europe before Columbus.

I will show what is the evidence later. For now on, I will just say that it is believe Columbus found some Inuits in Ireland during a trip down there.

For instance, Inuits colonized Greenland at the same time than Norse. It is not reason to believe Iceland was out of reach, or Europe. Particularly when the currents go from West to East in the Northern Atlantic.

On the other hand, American Indians of the Caribbean and the North American Atlantic coasts, had large canoes able to carry 60 people and more! In fact, those canoes were as big as the norse ships, and also had sails!

Before going to the details, let's start to argue a little.