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With no Skraelings, Viking fishermen and occasional hunters could keep showing up, but that'd be about it. The fishing in particular would be attractive. But beyond that, the whole region would remain pretty unattractive. After that, once the New World is discovered (by Europe at large) later...

It's crucial to remember that empty, "virgin" land is very difficult to be worked productively. Human beings have been at it for literally hundreds of thousands of years. It starts small, but everything we did, even as stone age hunter-gatherers, helped to turn the environment to our purposes...