there are arguments about this question. the vikings have the earliest physical evidence to be discovered.
The Vikings settled in Normandy. Eventually, these Vikings intermarried with the French already living in Normandy, and those people became known as the Normans.
The vikings are believed to have discovered the new world first but Christopher Columbus "discovered the new world" in 1629
I think that through all the arguments and the evidence proven, that the Vikings by far were the first to have discovered the America's. They may not have done it intently but there is evidence proving that the Vikings were there centuries before Columbus.
If you look at what history teaches it was the Spanish. Though they have found evidence that the vikings were in Canada before the Spanish.
Newfoundland and Labrador
The Vikings first discovered Newfoundland, Canada when they came to America. The Scandinavian Vikings, in search of fertile land, voyaged far and wide, temporarily settling in Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian seacoast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
The Vikings conquered the French Province of Normandy.
Greenland.
Labrador
It might of got discovered by the vikings ,maybe.
They had one settlement in Newfoundland.
The province of Quebec was found by Jacques Cartier (France) towards 1535, as he navigated in the hopes of finding a route to India by the North West. He bumped into Quebec, who was then populated by the Iroquois, Inuits and Algonquins. There are clues that suggest that Vikings may have found the territory before Cartier had. The province developed afterwards when the King of France became interested in the territory.
the Vikings
Greendland is a country that starts with G and as founded by vikings
Iceland.
Iceland