Scandinavians were in America during the viking period, but there isn’t any evidence that suggest they returned. You have to realise that a lot of the people w

Scandinavians were in America during the viking period, but there isn’t any evidence that suggest they returned. You have to realise that a lot of the people who went that route weren’t “vikings” as such. Going viking was something you did, but 90% of Scandinavians were just farmers. In fact the reason we are such a homogeneous people here is largely because most farmers even had little contact with the sea-sized settlements that did go Viking. The Scandinavian explorers who headed north from Iceland and eventually ended up in America were likely farmers who had lost their lands for whatever reason, and as such were likely settlers rather than warriors. Many who would have had no intention of ever going back, even if they hadn’t perished. I’m not a big expert on ecology, but I also think that the climate they landed in was basically worse than what they came from. So there probably wasn’t a whole lot of exotic foods to trade, even if they had wanted to.