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So I've searched the Forum and there are plenty of topics and TL's about a Vinland surviving from Leif Ericsson's voyage in the 1000's, but this idea goes along different lines. Recently I've finished Jane Smiley's "The Greenlanders" (a great read no matter what), and it got me thinking. What if, in the mid-late 14th century, a group of Norse Greenlanders began to voyage to Vinland and Markland for timber and other resources, and set up temporary summer camps and then, as weather conditions and social factors in Greenland force them away, eventually become permanent settlers?

What's the likelihood of this happening, and would it be possible for them to easily move down into what are now New Brunswick, Quebec around the St. Lawrence River, and New England, instead of having to stay up in what is now Newfoundland and northern Quebec?
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