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what if vikings actually did reach the pacific via the northwest passage (as some believe as seen in link below (its actually a good read:p))

http://www.kilts.co.nz/longship.htm

and lets say a group of 50 or a 100 viking men and women settled on one of the islands in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the northern Coast of British Columbia. kinda like the settlement on Newfound Land. and they manage to get along with the natives all right. and eventually they intermarry and interbreed and the such... how would this effect the future of the region?

the natives would learn how to metal work, weave clothe, and farm (goats are a possibility)... the natives would be exposed to diseases and be more resiliant to them. their culture would carry on certain traits of the viking culture. (they might even evolve a written language) ... and the such....

and maybe if some of the vikings did leave and make it back home (with tales about a new world and gold and the such...) and maybe a couple hundred more might return. imagine the possibilities...

discuss. what do you think would happen?
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