>>280901121
The biggest thing would be the intercultural exchange, how it affects thorfinn's ideals, and how it couldve affected Vinland
>muslims escaping the collapse of the caliphate, slave revolts, turkic invasions
>Greeks and their entire set of problems, both internal and external
>Latin and Italian merchants, priests, and pilgrims
>Normans and Varangians are there so you can have different kinds of vikings
They can all talk about their idea of heaven and ways of peace and maybe it can shift the conclusiok but build up a greater worldview that there is a lot of conflict and the vikings werent unique, requiring a wholistic change in ideals for vast swathes of people, but that there are circumstances for talk-no-justu to be a workable solution