Why Didn't the Vikings Colonise North America?

Around the turn of the millennium, a crew of Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland under the leadership of Leif Eriksson, son of the infamous Erik the Red, sighted lands that but a handful of Europeans before them had seen: Mainland North America. Despite having reached it and found it to be a fertile land of wild wheat and grapes, the Vikings spent mere decades in Vinland, before abandoning it forever. In this video I answer the question; why didn't the Vikings colonise North America?

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Waltz of the Flowers - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
William Tell Overture - Gioachino Rossini
Mystery - Holfix
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Living Voyage - Kevin MacLeod
Sunday Dub - Kevin MacLeod
Journey to the North - Kevin MacLeod
Dub Feral - Kevin MacLeod
Echoes of Time - Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod
Expeditionary - Kevin MacLeod
Night of the Owl - Kevin MacLeod
Cambodian Odyssey - Kevin MacLeod
"Sky of Our Ancestors” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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