I did but on vanilla quite a while ago and before Norway were buffed into their current iteration.
Due to being stuck right at the roof of the map with forest slowing your land units route to the rest of the world, I’d recommend researching sailing straight away and producing an early builder; use two of the charges and then send the builder southwest across sea and land to eventually explore the coast tiles along Southern Asia. The builder will reach that area before your longships can. After the builder and maybe an early settler, churn out longships and use them to steal civilian units or take coastal cities!