Not enough man power, not enough resources, didn't have the best available technology.
They did set up colonies in Greenland and were on the North American continent. I don't think they had any contact with Native Americans. Nat Geo reports archaeologists have found a second Viking site in Newfoundland . This site has a stone hearth for iron working, and are working to identify who exactly made it.
They got there but it was a long voyage.
They were more interested in colonizing Greenland.
The first country to successfully colonize the Americas was Spain. The first peoples to start colonies in the Americas, if we are to not include the Natives who came from Russia, are the Vikings. Leif Eriksson of Greenland sailed to North America (specifically Canada) and established a colony, which after losing connection to its mother-country, Greenland, dissolved. This Viking colonization of North America occurred over 500 years before Christopher Columbus' birth.
They did !
Germany didn't try to colonize France, Germany succeeded in colonizing France in 1940 after the French government surrendered to Germany.
The agreed upon answer is that the natives were too fierce, and the environment was too difficult for the vikings. They were in constant conflict with the Skraelings and I think there were harsh winters(could be wrong about that part). Either way, it was difficult and long to bring vikings over and when they got there they had to gather food and fight an increasingly hostile native population. Not that easy or appetizing.
it was ethipia
They probably did not want to settle there, with all the people arriving, and the struggling government. They probably werent even thinking about America at the time.
He searched for new lands to colonize.
Dominate a weaker country and create an empire.
The primary desire from France, which colonized Laos, was to try to colonize Siam, which fizzled out. However, they maintained control from a position of pride in the French colonial endeavor.