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What if the colonization of Vinland had succeeded?
Here is that story!------------------------
Map 4
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In 20 years, Wulfnoth Svenson manages to create new trade routes to finance his colony. They are based on fish, timber, slaves and furs. The natives are very demanding of weapons and iron tools and provide slaves and furs.
On the other side the Greenlanders and the Icelanders buy a lot of wood, furs, fish and slaves. Only the finest furs and the best fish make it to Europe. The vessels are still too small for the mass sale of fish to be profitable.
In 1094 the majority of the 10 ships arriving in Vinland were Greenlandic (3) or Icelandic (6). Only one is from Norway.
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This level of detail may seem exaggerated but we can see things here that we would not see if we remain too superficial. And these are very important things the trade routes.
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It would be nice for researchers to make maps representing the details of Vinland in the way that the Sagas describe them. The two main Sagas on the topic are Eric the Red's Saga and the Greenlanders' Saga. They don't seem to describe Vinland's regions in the same way.
Here is a map that tries to lay out the geography in Eric the Red's Saga:
https://historum.com/attachments/eric-the-red-vinland-map-with-names-png.64472/
This map tries to lay out the geography in the Greenlanders' Saga:
https://forumcontent.paradoxplaza.com/public/995299/Vinland%20Map-Greenlanders%20with%20names.png