Quote Originally Posted by Sykotyk Rampage
L'Anse-aux-Meadows one of the Viking settlements in Newfoundland Canada dated to between 860 and 1060. 500 years before Columbus. They also had other settlements and explored into Nova Scotia, Maine, New England. So yes it was quite possible they could have explored farther south. It seems they never did, or we will never know.

Can't wait to sail my Scots into the gulf of Mexico.
Yes, but is there a single viking-descendant living in Canada today? What happened with all those settlements? They didn`t last. With those type of ships it was impossible to a establish a permanent settlement. Only in the 15th century did the possibility for colonization of america arrived, and even then it was very slow and difficult.