Europe is much more connected in the Dark Ages then we tend to think. Ireland effects Britain which effects France which effects Europe. A story of a Fanaithe voyage may cause a man to drink more heavily and reminisce with his comrades more before trying for a baby with his wife, changing which sperm will fertilize, changing his offspring and their offspring. A tale of far-off wealth may plant a seed in the mind a King to try to develop his Kingdom or invade his neighbor to take his land. Little changes, even small ones, can have drastic effects.
In the end, it also comes down to my creative choices. This is my timeline, the way I think that the world would have developed in a hypothetical scenario set roughly a millenia and a half before any of us were born. This is the way I have chosen to craft the scenario, and my roughly sixty pages of notes and snippets from research ensures that the world I am creating is internally consistent and makes sense in the context of this alternate universe- which, in the end, is the most important thing (as mankind, lacking the omniscience of Deity, cannot say exactly how things would have played out had Brendan discovered the New World). And, on the whole, I take the reception I have recieved as evidence people have enjoyed reading what I have written- which is my goal.
So I am personall satisfied with how I have handled this scenario. Others are welcome to pursue this scenario and apply a different set of logic or different approaches. But, in the end as I have said, this is my take on this situation.
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