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Charcoal works, and Newfoundland has deposits of Iron ore that the Norse could have mined and thus taught how to mine. For that matter, there are ways to smelt iron with just wood fire, although I believe that requires particular types of ore. The Norse didn't use Coal so no way for them to...

Building cities and farming requires a very different culture than nomadic tribes, changing from stone age to iron age nomatic tribes is a much smaller change. More importantly the later provides a direct, and massive increase in fighting and hunting ability, so it will spread one way or the...

Thorfinn Karlsefn went Viking and settled in New Foundland, a few years later they left with no lasting impression, but what if they lasted a few more years and ended up teaching some basic iron working to the locals (a slave used for working the smithy, a smith forced to flee to the locals...