> which was totally forgotten before other europeans
Was it? They just haven’t realized or cared that it was a different continent rather than a bunch of different islands far in the North.
Vinland sagas were written several hundred years after the last voyages and weren’t lost either (Iceland itself had very limited contact with the rest of Europe though (e.g. it took the plague an extra 50 years to get there).
Other Europeans never knew anything that they could forget…
Nobody cared or had any clue what some “savages” in the North were up to and whether they discovered another random island. If they did it had no impact on them.
Europe was extremely different in the late 1400s compared to 1000 AD, Columbus letters were published in many major cities almost immediately after his return.
Was it? They just haven’t realized or cared that it was a different continent rather than a bunch of different islands far in the North.
Vinland sagas were written several hundred years after the last voyages and weren’t lost either (Iceland itself had very limited contact with the rest of Europe though (e.g. it took the plague an extra 50 years to get there).