Stronger Viking Age = Early(if not inconvinent) Colonization?

Shackel

Banned
Alright, I've been constructing a timeline based off of the idea of Vikings conquering Nekor and eventually adopting Berber culture and cavalry that starts in 859.

This leads to the conquering of the entire Morrocan Rif and modern Andulucia. Cordoba collapses into the taifas early, and Portugal is split up into small Viking kingdoms(unrelated).

In 870, the surrounded and small kingdom of Lisbon sends out ships to see if there is any more land out there. When they find the Azores(about as far as they can go), they claim they found the outskirts of Atlantis, reviving the old legend. Eventually Nekor(the PoD Vikings) go down the Canary Current and find the islands, settling there.

Both nations continue down the current and end up in the Carribean and the coast with around 12K men in total, ending up in the Maya(small trading but mostly assimilation and exploration), Rio Grande(Think English settlers, but eventually can't send back), Cuba(Assimilation), and the Mississippi culture(Vinland).

Is this too ASB for the times? If not, would they just assimilate with, possibly, the exception of the Rio Grande Norse-Berbers?
 
I am not sure if the Viking ships could actually survive the mid-Atlantic--both the Iberians and Muslism thought of the Canaries as the southern End of the World because ships simply did not come back so how could they last in the Atlantic? Also, as I was told in RoS, it's a highly impractical use of wood to build Viking ships in Spain.

I think I mentioned this in your other thread.
 

Shackel

Banned
Ah, I see.

Could it be a possibilty that an economy could be wasted by spending so much on boats meant to see the end of the world?

I was planning a sort of "Balkan World" created by interference by Vikings everywhere. Maybe a need for more raids could assist.
 
If you want new World Vikings, you could always have them travel the same route they did IOTL, which was by way of Iceland, Greenland and landing in Nova Scotia, or "Vinland" difference being they could actually have them create a permanent settlement, as long as they could find a way to make peace with the Skraelings...
 

Shackel

Banned
Actually I wanted sort of a combination.

Southerns try first, and then are followed by the Icelandic Vikings.
 
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