An Interesting Possibility: Second Settlement of Vinland?

Vague reports of dusky pagans in half-frozen islands to the west, armed with stone-age weapons? I don't think Europeans would find such tales to be terribly extraordinary, though they would likely be jazzed up in the re-telling, with stories of animal-headed or feathered natives.

you do realize that the vikings were present in Greenland before the Thule Inuits, right?
 
No, I didn't actually Interesting. But I don't see the relevance of that to what I was saying.

you were saying that the inuits had no reason or want to expand into areas controlled previously by the norse, which is false, as the inuits moved into greenland, made serious conflict with the norse, and were a contributing factor to their downfall.

with larger ships, there is little reason to think that they wouldnt migrate to iceland where the going was easier, and the population there was weak as well
 
you were saying that the inuits had no reason or want to expand into areas controlled previously by the norse, which is false, as the inuits moved into greenland, made serious conflict with the norse, and were a contributing factor to their downfall.

with larger ships, there is little reason to think that they wouldnt migrate to iceland where the going was easier, and the population there was weak as well

Not so much weak, but divided over religion. The pre 1000ad pagans of Iceland might have seen the Inuits as new trading partners once King Olaf started trying to Christianize the island by cutting off trade. We might see the Inuit backing the Norse Icelandic Pagans against their Christian counterparts. The Norse might have talked their new allies into raiding Norway to bring back the old ways too.
 
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