What if the natives had adopted the weapon and tool making tech of the vikings?

What if during the viking endeavors to North America there was just enough contact between the norse and the natives that the natives were able to learn and adopt some of the tool and weapon making from them?

The Vikings would have still leave like in our times but there'd be about 500 years for that remaining know-how to spread across the various native groups prior to the next European groups to arrive.
 
That would have to involve some level of cultural exchange and looking at Viking writings about skraelings it seems they found them to be savages from the jump.
 
And prone to shoot first, ask questions later. But, given the Vikings had a similar approach to potential rivals or materiel supplies aka 'Treasure'...
 
The Vikings got along with their neighbours as well as any other Dark Ages people. By neighbours I mean people who could hit them back. Their thing was, though, that they had naval tech advances that let them reach people who could not reach them back. That did not work out well for the those people.

In Vinland, the Vikings were encountering the Beotuck, who seem to have been on the low end of the Americas tech and development scale. I would think the landing somewhere else and encountering a more advanced people would have created a better climate for this to happen. Throw in good chemistry between a Viking Jarl and a native Chief, and you are a good bit along the way. Alternately, the Greenlanders who visited Vinland occasionally could have gotten along well with some people, and decided to go for the better climate.

Generally, I feel a small colony that gets absorbed into the native population is the best way here.
 
As far as I can tell, none of the native tribes of New England were smelting iron by the time of the American Revolution. They could work scrap iron into arrowheads and repair bits on a musket, but I would like to see any source that says they made iron from ore. Neither did they adopt European crops or domesticated animals. This was a well settled New England with dozens of cities and plenty of native people who converted to Christianity, lived among the English and some traveled to Europe and back. It seems to me the transmission of iron technology would be beyond what a single Norse colony could manage.
 
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