It seems to me, all pre-Columbian north America timelines, either consist of unchanged Amerind societies gaining some crucial technology through their own, or downright Norse colonization of north America with massive consequences such as earlier European contact, Christianity/Asatru et cetera.
But what we instead imagine that the Newfoundland colony is abandoned as per OTL, and the difference only consists of one or a handful of Norse ending up living among and integrating into some local tribe of Amerindians? Perhaps a family of outcasts? Apparently, the Norse seems to have traded up and down the coast, at least down to New Brunswick, so there should be plenty of peoples to choose from.
I recognize the immense risk that the people in question simply die for one reason or another, but lets imagine they don't, and that they do manage to transfer technologies to their new kin. Perhaps the daughters in the family marry someone powerful, and the father is limp from some earlier injury, and so on. Which Norse technologies would be immediately useful to the Amerindians?
AFAIK iron ore in at least micro-localities such as bog iron should be pretty much ubiquitous. They're obviously not going to immediately send long-ships full of steel clad warriors to conquer their neighbors, but anyone reasonably intelligent should be able to see the benefit of say, iron tools, sails, wheels and food conservation.
What to you think?
But what we instead imagine that the Newfoundland colony is abandoned as per OTL, and the difference only consists of one or a handful of Norse ending up living among and integrating into some local tribe of Amerindians? Perhaps a family of outcasts? Apparently, the Norse seems to have traded up and down the coast, at least down to New Brunswick, so there should be plenty of peoples to choose from.
I recognize the immense risk that the people in question simply die for one reason or another, but lets imagine they don't, and that they do manage to transfer technologies to their new kin. Perhaps the daughters in the family marry someone powerful, and the father is limp from some earlier injury, and so on. Which Norse technologies would be immediately useful to the Amerindians?
AFAIK iron ore in at least micro-localities such as bog iron should be pretty much ubiquitous. They're obviously not going to immediately send long-ships full of steel clad warriors to conquer their neighbors, but anyone reasonably intelligent should be able to see the benefit of say, iron tools, sails, wheels and food conservation.
What to you think?