WI the Vikings bring Turkeys back to Europe?

I don't think it'd make much of a difference in the great scheme of things. Turkeys are iconically American, but unlike corn and potatoes, they have no unfilled niche in the Europeran agriocultural system or are in any way superior to local resources. They are likely integrated into European poultry farming, maybe with a specific Norse name, maybe subsumed under 'bustard'.
 
I don't think it'd make much of a difference in the great scheme of things. Turkeys are iconically American, but unlike corn and potatoes, they have no unfilled niche in the Europeran agriocultural system or are in any way superior to local resources. They are likely integrated into European poultry farming, maybe with a specific Norse name, maybe subsumed under 'bustard'.
How far north did potatoes, and to a lesser extent corn, spread before the European colonization of the Americas? I was wondering if the Vikings ever got far enough south to cross paths. IIRC potatoes were mainly introduced to Europe in the 16th century from South America which suggests not.
 
How far north did potatoes, and to a lesser extent corn, spread before the European colonization of the Americas? I was wondering if the Vikings ever got far enough south to cross paths. IIRC potatoes were mainly introduced to Europe in the 16th century from South America which suggests not.

I don't think potatoes ever showed up in North America before Europeans, or if they did, not in the modern US/Canada where the Vikings were.

The Vikings might have encountered corn, since tribes in the Southern Maritimes farmed it, but probably didn't think much of it. No native group north of there or in immediate contact with Newfoundland were agricultural peoples, apparently.

Of course, if potatoes can spread north, then maybe the turkey can spread south to the Andean region so the Polynesians can swap chickens for turkey and it can somehow find a way back to Asia.
 
Turkeys did not occur natively so far north as Newfoundland area, I think. The Vikings would have to go far south, like Massachusetts or Long Island, to get them.
 
Were the turkeys of New England even the domesticated variety? I always thought they were wild turkeys that the natives hunted rather than farmed. The domesticates turkeys came from Mesoamerica and didn't spread far beyond that region until post-Columbian times, unless I'm wrong.
 
Domestic turkeys and potatoes would require much farther journeys than IOTL. Even corn is not going to be available in Vinland proper. Leaving aside that, though, corn would be much more useful than turkeys. Potatoes would be best, but that would require the Vikings to cross the continent and explore the Pacific coast of South America, which is more of a Hollywood thing.
 
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