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It could have been, if they could have crossed from Greenland - and I assume they could have since they got from the Norse lands to Greenland and even into Canada.

But, I'm not sure they would want to - part of why they stayed in the cold areas is because after all the adaptations they had to achieve to live in those climates, they really didn't have anyone trying to take over their lands - I mean, who wants to fight over an iceberg? let them have it, I say..... So they knew how to survive, only the strong survived (which was important in the viking culture) and they didn't have anyone trying to take over their land.

I saw an interesting show on Discovery channel the other day in which several groups of palentologists were stating that they believe there were 2 types of "native" people in the americas before there was a huge climate change. Some came from the eastern side of eurasia - like the mongolians or other asians - accross the Bering Strait. And some came all the way accross the atlantic in small boats before the continental shift had completely occured (when North america and Europe were still fairly close together). Most of them died off due to major climate change, however, they believe that several tribes from BOTH sides met up and traveled toward the New Mexico/Mexico/Texas area and helpe each other - that is why the Native Americans did not look like Asians or Europeans...... they interbred.

IF this theory was proven true, we could assume there might have been some hearty light skinned tribes that survived without interbreeding and then that could explain the tribe as well.

There's a lot of fraud and incorrect information about the Vikings out there. They had contact with Eskimos in northern Greenland, Canadian Eskimos, and probably Native Americans. I've never seen any legitimate mention of them meeting a fair skinned tribe. Most of their trade with non-european groups probably actually happened north of their Greenland settlement, where the Eskimos were living in Greenland. These people had enough contact to have incorporated the Vikings into their legends and stories, telling of a young Eskimo girl who worked on a Viking farm. Greenland Viking stories had what appears to be a parallel story about the Eskimos. Once you move into the New World areas the Vikings named Helluland, Marklands, and Vinland, there is little evidence to indicate more than sporadic contact with any of the groups. The Viking sagas refer to the people here as "Skraelings" and most of brief mentions of contact involve killing the natives immediately or, in a couple of cases, attempting trade first, only to have one group accidently offend the other, resulting in another battle. The presence of these natives and the conflicts the Vikings had with them is probably the biggest reason the Vikings were not able to succeed in establishing a permanent settlement in America.

Though there have been many stories of fair-skinned or even blond Indians, there has been no documentation to support the claims.

Let's face it, the latest known Nordic presence in North America was in the early 1300's, if the Kensington Stone is properly dated, and the presence was very small at best. The likelihood of a pure Norse bloodline surviving is nil. Any Norsemen who remained, and survived, after the failure of Leif Ericson's colony were quickly absorbed into the native population, and the same for the Norse expedition that left us the Kensington Stone. (I believe that this expedition was purely a military and exploring trip, not a colonization expedition, so there were probably no Norse women in the company.)

And yes, the expansion of the Norse Culture was impelled by a period of severe weather. Scientists refer to it as a mini-ice age.

Doc

Your assertion is false. No evidence of a fair skinned tribe exists.