Could elements of the Norse religion have been absorbed by the native populations of North America?

IOTL there was and still are quite a few hybridizations of Christianity and Indigenous American beliefs.

If when the Norse landed there were friendlier and longer interactions between the Norse and natives, could a diffusion of Norse beliefs have entered Native belief systems and remained even after the Norse left themselves?
 
IOTL there was and still are quite a few hybridizations of Christianity and Indigenous American beliefs.

If when the Norse landed there were friendlier and longer interactions between the Norse and natives, could a diffusion of Norse beliefs have entered Native belief systems and remained even after the Norse left themselves?

Well, that's tricky to say because worship of the Aesir was so... personalized? (Not sure if that's entirely accurate). It's more a mythos that lays out the "facts" of the universe and leaves what to do with them to individual worshipers than a codified system of practices and moral imperatives. Because of that, "beliefs" are a lot vaguer
 
Well, that's tricky to say because worship of the Aesir was so... personalized? (Not sure if that's entirely accurate). It's more a mythos that lays out the "facts" of the universe and leaves what to do with them to individual worshipers than a codified system of practices and moral imperatives. Because of that, "beliefs" are a lot vaguer

That may not be entirely true, because the only thing that got recorded by their christian descendants was the mythos/stories, not their religious practices (not directly anyways).
 
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