In the infinite worlds setting is there a world where the vikings were more succesful

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Originally Posted by jovos

Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?

Why would they be devotees of Þór and Óðinn? The westward exploration from Greenland (and Iceland) occurs around 1000AD which is after Christianity has made a significant foothold in Norse society.

Also, I don't think Þór and Óðinn would have been the most obvious gods for settlements in America. Freyr would have been big. Possibly Njörður if the settlements are close to or rely on the sea.

Furthermore I don't see how settlements on the North American continent could have worked seeing that they were on the end of an extremely long and fragile supply chain.

Oh, and if there would've been settlers in North America they would've been Norse, not Vikings.