WI: The Vikings had not died off when they sent men to North America?

What if the vikings had not died off when they had sent a shipload of men to Newfoundland? What if they had been able to gradually colonize the Americas in the same way they had colonized Iceland? How would they interact with the natives? How would their colonization of the Americas be different from OTL colonization of the Americas?
 
What if the vikings had not died off when they had sent a shipload of men to Newfoundland? What if they had been able to gradually colonize the Americas in the same way they had colonized Iceland? How would they interact with the natives? How would their colonization of the Americas be different from OTL colonization of the Americas?

Would be interesting, if they share the iron-technology with the natives, eventually. Maybe there is an assimilating-process and the Viking settlers are the founders of an Native American-Norse culture. Iam not sure to what degree Christian the Vikings already were or if they were Christians at all.
 
Vinland was described as an ass end of an ass end of Viking world. It was so remote and problematic to colonise that only reason for Vikings to invest serious energy and resources into it is hindsight that North America will become important continent in couple of centuries.
 
Would be interesting, if they share the iron-technology with the natives, eventually. Maybe there is an assimilating-process and the Viking settlers are the founders of an Native American-Norse culture. Iam not sure to what degree Christian the Vikings already were or if they were Christians at all.
Lief Erickson had converted to Christianity, IIRC being the man to convert Greenland to Christianity.
 
Lief Erickson had converted to Christianity, IIRC being the man to convert Greenland to Christianity.

that's debatable. The Greenlanders' Saga says nothing about that, while Erik's saga says just that. The debate is over which is more accurate. Personally, I think the first is more reliable, as it is a much more prosaic story of sailing and discovery, with very little religious/supernatural element to it. The second seems to have obviously re-written by Christian monks who had an ideological axe to grind.. not to mention, it has stuff like a Uniped in it...
 
Maybe a Viking warlord on the losing side of a battle takes off with his followers to the Ass end of the world where they won't be wiped out by their enemies.
 
The Six Nations would be ironmakers and have a lot of blondes and red heads.

The Puritans would have been a longhouse storyboard for 'Salvoing Pilgram Ryan'.
 
Might I point out that they didn't 'die out', they gave up and went home. Rather different fates (for the people involved) (although not for the settlement).
 
Did the little mini ice age that struck Europe from the 1700s to 1900s hit the Viking settlements and made subsistence farming nearly impossible?
 
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