A celebrated Swedish-Canadian archeologist who helped unravel the story of the Vikings at the only acknowledged Norse site in ...

According to the Norse sagas, written around the 13th century, the voyages to North America occurred circa A.D. 1000. Album (Facts vs. fiction: How the real Vikings compared to the brutal ...

To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.

Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...

The Vikings have lived within the American imagination for hundreds of years, and they were on the continent long before. There is incontrovertible evidence that Northmen, probably sailing from ...

All the detail about Norse trips to Vinland (as the Norse called North America) comes from two accounts: The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. These epic Viking tales were ...

The program stated that L’Anse aux Meadows is “the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America and the earliest evidence of European settlement in the New World” and as ...

This supports some 'sagas' - stories passed down through Viking societies - which state that explorers imported timber from 'Vínland', a coastal area of North America thought to be along the ...

Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...

A celebrated Swedish-Canadian archeologist who helped unravel the story of the Vikings at the only acknowledged Norse site in ...