Danish Newfoundland?

Surviving Vinland is a cliche, and I don't think it's practical, but what if the Danes had a clearer idea of the land known to the Greenlanders (Newfoundland and parts of the Gulf of Saint Laurence) when contact was lost? Say there's a well-known legend of the Bishop of Greenland being martyred there, so it is seen as rightfully Norwegian. Can we get someone like Christopher 1 or John interested in reclaiming it as part the Kalma Union when conditions improve again?
 
Surviving Vinland is a cliche, and I don't think it's practical, but what if the Danes had a clearer idea of the land known to the Greenlanders (Newfoundland and parts of the Gulf of Saint Laurence) when contact was lost? Say there's a well-known legend of the Bishop of Greenland being martyred there, so it is seen as rightfully Norwegian. Can we get someone like Christopher 1 or John interested in reclaiming it as part the Kalma Union when conditions improve again?

I think the best point to colonise Newfoundland is with Hans Pothorst (1440-1490), Christian I of Denmark see to have send him on a North Atlantic expedition in the 1470ties, where he is believed to have discovered Newfoundland, he was send on other trips before he died. So maybe we could see him push a claim to Newfoundland (likely called Markland instead), and establishing a small outpost. The Danish king could use this to attempt to control the cod fishing in the region, and slowly we could see the outpost being developed into a small and fortified port with a few farms around it. When the French and English arrive in the region, the fort is used to push a claim to all of Newfoundland and more settlers are sent to the colony.
 
There apparently was two bishops who died in Vinland; Jon a Saxon or Irishman who had travelled to Iceland and then on to Vinland where he 1059 was killed by the heathens thus becoming a martyr. The second bishop was Erik Gnuppson Uppsi who travelled to his new seat in Greenland 1113 or 14; he then went on to visit his parish which included Vinland but didn't return from that voyage apparently as a new bishop Arnald voyaged to Greenland by 1126.
The Danes and Norwegians and Icelanders may well have had a general idea of Vinland but also the problematic voyage to said land. Pothorst and Pining reached Newfoundland 1472 and possibly the means for getting there and the adverse weather did prevent it till then. So 15. century seems to be the time for such an endeavour to be initiated.
 
I think the best point to colonise Newfoundland is with Hans Pothorst (1440-1490), Christian I of Denmark see to have send him on a North Atlantic expedition in the 1470ties, where he is believed to have discovered Newfoundland, he was send on other trips before he died. So maybe we could see him push a claim to Newfoundland (likely called Markland instead), and establishing a small outpost. The Danish king could use this to attempt to control the cod fishing in the region, and slowly we could see the outpost being developed into a small and fortified port with a few farms around it. When the French and English arrive in the region, the fort is used to push a claim to all of Newfoundland and more settlers are sent to the colony.




This.

People don't realize the political power that lies within the Grand Banks
 
It's kind of interesting they never did try. They still have to keep it safe against French and British influence, though.
 
Maybe they did try but were killed by the native Micmac people. What if all of the Danes were killed before they escaped to the safety of their ship(s) where, if they could escape, could recount to the others in Greenland what had happened to the expedition. Don't know much about Scandinavian history so...
 
Maybe they did try but were killed by the native Micmac people. What if all of the Danes were killed before they escaped to the safety of their ship(s) where, if they could escape, could recount to the others in Greenland what had happened to the expedition. Don't know much about Scandinavian history so...

Doubtful. The mi'kmaq did not come to Newfoundland until after European contact. The Europeans would have dealt with the beothuk or their ancestors. (Beothuk culture seems to have started around 1500 but their ancestors had a very similar culture). The beothuk are unique in having almost no contact with Europeans. When the Europeans came they retreated into the central parts of the island. The wars between them and the settlers were almost always the settlers fault but they didn't really start until the beothuk had nowhere left to run.
 
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