The Vikings were pretty amazing, in this case, being able to create iron tools anywhere they found themselves.
Imagine if the Vikings of America had had the luck that Cortez had in Mexico. If the Vikings had landed in a place with a milder climate and more hospitable natives, iron making, the wheel, and the horse could have been introduced to America centuries before Columbus.
This alternative history would be fertile territory for a novelist.
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If the Vikings had landed in a place with a milder climate and more hospitable natives...
Cortez was lucky to find a spot where he could land, plus colonization was made possible by their firearms (primitive as they were) which the earlier Vikings had not had.
The Vikings were an infantry force. Don’t think that they were transporting war horses on those longships in the pre-Christian era. That probably had to wait for the cogs and Spanish Caravelle.