when norse explorers reached Baffin Island and made a settlement in L‘Anse aux meadows, why didn’t they keep exploring south and made settlements in the valuable and resourceful US? and also, is the stone found in no man’s land with an inscription that reads the name leif erikson and the year 1001 legit or is it a false inscription made much later?
As I often copy & pastepost in this subreddit such as in this recent thread, it was likely that medieval Norse settlers in Greenland did not primarily value the location as well as the resources found in now US as attractive as those in Greenland, where it was far closer to the European market, with many exotic animals and bird (and their products) highly valued there.
is the stone found in no man’s land with an inscription
If one cited in this article is the stone you mentioned above, almost every aspects of the carving suggest it was not authentic or very, very highly doubtful for the carvings of the alleged 11th century Greenlanders: