Madoc, a Welshman who, according to Welsh tradition, discovered America 300 years before Columbus, after staying in which for a time he returned, gave an account of what he had seen and experienced, and went back, but was never heard of more; his story has been amplified by Southey in an epic.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Madman of the North * Madonna