A friend and I did photoshop picture a long time ago of a medieval knight riding across the Great Plains. So we built this timeline around it. Here's the bare bones, just to throw it out there:
circa-1000- Erik the Red lands in Vinland, but a few years later, they are repulsed from Lans aux Meadows by Skraelings. After a few years, the map that was used by later fishermen falls into the hands of some Vikings heading to Constantinople. This map then makes it's way to Rome, where the Catholic church, hearing the by now outlandish tales of this new world, decides to keep it's various warlords and mercenaries busy from pillaging by telling them, more or less...there's gold across the oceans, and land. The Vikings return to Vinland, this time knowing they've got a reason to stay.
That's about what we wrote. Neither of us were that versed in the time period, but that photoshop picture popped up again when I was cleaning out my computer.
So...what does everyone think? Logical? Illogical? Fun, yet impossible?
I leave the floor open. Let 'er rip.