Oh, sorry, I was talking about the route eastward, north of Siberia.
No problem.. I spent a number of years in a Scandinavian country at an impressionable age and became a viking, well, enthusiast may be too strong.
When someone says, vikings (more likely, generic Norsemen) could not have been “there,” I take out a globe. Turn it so Norway and Sweden are in the center as you look at it. Look at all the places we know the Norse went: Kiev, Constatinople, Southern Italy, “Normandy” of course, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Vinland. That makes a huge circle with only a few areas within it not named.
When someone says, surely they could not have gone there, I say, they went everywhere else, why would they NOT go there? The Alexandria, Minnesota runestone? There are definitely technical problems, but it’s well within where I expect some Norse would have gone.