WI: The Danish return to Greenland and find it still inhabited?

For the colony to survive there would have had to be a economic incentive. Perhaps had the Grand Banks Cod been discovered a century earlier? If the demand for that were in place, say 1375 or 1400 then perhaps the Greenland colony would have survived for a while longer as a way station to New Foundland fishing camps? Was the demand for fur large enough in 1400 to pay for the voyage & related costs?

There wasn't the same demand for Fish for the Norse. A rich fishing ground was all very nice, but not all that useful. Iceland, for instance, had huge cod stocks. Same with Fur.

There was a huge demand for Walrus Ivory for a while. But that faded with the African Ivory trade coming in.
 
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