THE LITTLE ICE AGE

HUDSON BAY may have looked like during the start of the LITTLE ICE AGE
LENAPE LAND

The next catastrophe was documented better, but European historians had not yet understood how weather works.  The North Atlantic Oscillation persists over Iceland for long periods of time.  
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When the Baltic Sea froze as it did in 1302-4, the whaling in Davis Strait was done in warm weather.  When the torrential rains swamped European sea coasts and rivers for hundreds of miles inland, Davis Strait froze.  Europe and North America were separated for three centuries.
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So at the beginning of the Little Ice Age, space ship visitors may have seen Hudson Bay looking like this in early spring: Davis Strait and Hudson Bay had frozen.  In some years they may have frozen every month of the year.  For the Norse Christians of Greenland, who called themselves "Lenape," survival meant they had to walk on the ice to their kinfolks in Wynland of West.  Fortunately, they learned how to walk on ice.
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In the meantime, the waters of Europe, which had devastated the coastal cities, was followed by the Black Plague as temperatures allowed the plague carrying mosquitos to swarm.  Norway, which had been ice bound suffered worse when the plague hit after Europe's suffering.
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By then northern Europeans began to have bumper crops.  The European food surplus was used as agricultural blackmail to keep the famished Norwegians restricted onto land.  Norwegians did not recover their sailing talents until four centuries later.  So, knowledge of Wynland of West faded into the snowbanks.  Only fishermen of the north Atlantic knew where the cod banks were.
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When the sailors of Europe began to push the envelope, the Pope changed the rules.  His Bull proclaiming that the first discover of new lands could claim the land for the King of the sailors, created a mind set that somewhere in the west was New Land where no one had ever gone before.  A sub set of the the Eurocentric Paradigm became a firm paradigm for America:  "America was a pristine wilderness, occupied by only a few natives, who were pagan."
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For five centuries, if evidence conflicted with the Eurocentric paradigm, the evidence was thrown out.
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LENAPE LAND

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Holand's Mooring Stones #1, 2, & 3