“No mention of the Norsemen that came over?”
Which ones, when?
Lief Ericsson and his party came about 1,000 but left a few years later, when they became concerned about the Skraelings.
I am curious about other Nordic explorations/migrations/settlements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas
An account by Snorri Sturllasson has it that one group stayed awhile and built a nice longhall. Later two groups came together and ended up fighting over that longhall - with one group killing the other. Mass murder seemed to sour the entire enterprise and they left and went their separate ways.