WI: Norse Colonization of North America had stuck?

Hi everyone, first time poster here. I was just thinking of a topic that I hadn't seen discussed yet, and thought I'd like to see what everyone thought about it.

As everyone knows, the Norse inhabitants of Greenland briefly started a colony on the eastern shore of Canada, likely in Newfoundland, and named it Vinland, in about 985/986 AD. What if, instead of their colony failing, they defeated (or perhaps subjugated) the Native Americans and were able to spread out and utilize the vast resources of North America? Think it's possible that they may have become an even greater power over the next several hundred years and shifted the power balance in medieval Europe? Maybe its wishful thinking (since I am of Scandinavian descent), but I imagine a newly reunited Scandinavia growing to become a superpower in the next 200 years or so, and (due to their conversion to Catholocism around 1000 AD) possibly gaining a greater influence in the Church, and even becoming a Holy Norse Empire? Thoughts are appreciated.
 

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The result would just be a new Europe on the other side of the sea, filled with small bickering states, of course the different being that they would all understand each others. So it would in truth being "HRE goes to America". Of course other result would be introduction of American foodsources to Europe via Scandinavian, which could result in a Scandinavian colonisation of the land around the Baltic and a generel European population explosion 300-500 years earlier. Beside that we would likely see native civilisation survive in the Andens and in Mesoamerica, even if they're quite likely to be converted to Christianity..
 
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This has been discussed before, but there wasn't too many fans of the guy's TL.

Anyway, (I have Scandinavian descent too, but anyway,) the fate of the Earth's history lies in something we have yet to know: Vinland's location. Some have assumed it was on the eastern coast of Canada (Newfoundland), but the idea that Vinland was in Mass. (Cape Cod) also exists. You could see anything from thousands of small countries in Canada to a Scandinavian empire on the American Coast.
 
This has been discussed before, but there wasn't too many fans of the guy's TL.

Anyway, (I have Scandinavian descent too, but anyway,) the fate of the Earth's history lies in something we have yet to know: Vinland's location. Some have assumed it was on the eastern coast of Canada (Newfoundland), but the idea that Vinland was in Mass. (Cape Cod) also exists. You could see anything from thousands of small countries in Canada to a Scandinavian empire on the American Coast.

The population of Vinland would not be enough to sustain a massive empire so quickly... unless there was a massive exodus of refugees somehow.

An interesting idea: a semi-unified (think Kievan Rus' in its later years) state evolves between 1000-1200, with a central ruler and smaller states with some autonomy. Then when the Little Ice Age hits, the state breaks up into small, warring principalities that are somewhat reduced in population. There we go... a HRE-ized Vinland.... how cool is that?
 
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