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…… was like there’s not… it’s just all northern land, it’s void of resources. We can’t do the whole husbandry thing. But you would think they could go down the coast. I mean, if they could have gotten enough people from Norway, you know, or Iceland or whatever, you know, a sizable enough colony, and build some kind of defenses to fight off the incessant attacks- … then I think that’s the difference there, ’cause there certainly the resources are all there. Mm-hmm. Or just keep staying in the water, keep going down the coast- … not necessarily camp out until, until you get further south. It is fascinating to think about that alternate history where they would have discovered America and settled there. So this is 500 years before Columbus. There’s… first of all, they could have done a lot of the stuff we think about the European nations doing, including brutality towards the natives. But there could have been a coexistence also, and some of the diseases that come with them could have done the damage that they did 500 years later. But now, it would have stabilized the populations to where the Europeans, the French, the Spanish, and so on who come, the natives would be more ready. So they would… Europe would then encounter a sizable population of the Viking descendants and the natives to where the, the two could hold onto the land and bring a different kind of civilization there. Because ultimately Europe, with the European ways, of the Western civilization, expanded out into North America, but there could be this whole Scandinavian vibe- … that would have taken over.…

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