Columbus knocks on the Danish King´s door.

After difficulties of Aragon and Castille during the Grenada expedition , Columbus looses hope for support and goes North. He travels to Kopenhagen and asks the king of Denmark for money for an expedition to India through the Western route. The Danish King orders him to sail to Island first and than find and reclaim Greenland on his way , the colony, that had been lost for decades, now .
In 1494, after researching scriptures of old Norse sagas Columbus and a little fleet of Holks and Caravels sails West. Danish, Norwegian and German sailors had been hired and conscripted to take part in the expedition.
 
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Just a year too late to meet Didrik Pining in person. If what Cortereal claims is true, the king may give him a tired "been there, done that" smile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didrik_Pining

As an aside, Vinland was still known at the time. It was just not considered important. Columbus would claim it's part of Northeastern Asia which POlo describes in the sketchiest of terms. Not sure how much the Danish court's advisors knew about the circumference of the Earth, but they might fall for it.
 
Just the cod fish and walrus ivory trades would be enough to make the Danish King wealthy. Consider that sometimes ivory traded for its weight in gold.
 

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Knock, knock, knockin' on Elsinore's door...

After difficulties of Aragon and Castille during the Grenada expedition , Columbus looses hope for support and goes North. He travels to Kopenhagen and asks the king of Denmark for money for an expedition to India through the Western route. The Danish King orders him to sail to Island first and than find and reclaim Greenland on his way , the colony, that had been lost for decades, now .
In 1494, after researching scriptures of old Norse sagas Columbus and a little fleet of Holks and Caravels sails West. Danish, Norwegian and German sailors had been hired and conscripted to take part in the expedition.

Ophelia, take this sword off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting Danish, too Danish to see,
Knock, knock, knockin' on Elsinore's door...

Okay, now that's out of the way... it's an intriguing idea. A Columbian exchange prompted by the Baltic-North Sea powers (rather than those from the Iberian Peninsula) would be interesting; the Spanish and Portuguese will get into it, certainly, but the initial scale would probably be less so than historically.

Probably more of an arena for merchantile companies, as well, which sounds like an English/Hanseatic/Danish/Swedish approach to come up with some of the initial costs... the French and English, given the Grand Banks and Newfoundland fisheries connections, may make a "northern" exploration era more of a multipolar effort than the Spanish and Portuguese did initially in the 1490s.

Could make for multiple smaller and conflicting claims ashore, and possibly more "native-European" alliances; although the disease issues are going to come into play earlier, as well, given the liklihood the northern Europeans will have an immediate impact on the mainland, rather than various diseases filtering through the Caribbean and then ashore that played out to the south.

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