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Regardless of the success or lack-of of the Norse in the North America, it seems like knowledge of those lands was either quickly forgotten or turned to myth.

What if knowledge of the lands were spread throughout Europe maybe akin to Marco Polo and his voyages into China? What would the kingdoms of Europe in the middle-ages 11th-14th century done with that knowledge? Would there have been much earlier attempts to colonize or at least explore those lands?
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