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Over time, the word viking became ... exploration phase to the settlement phase, and that was not possible. We have to remember that this was in the early days of the Greenland colony, which ...

Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While ...

The Vikings were marauders, feared and loathed in Europe before they sailed west -- first to Iceland, then Greenland ... From that day the Viking settlement became a target and skirmishes between ...

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

The Vikings, notwithstanding their reputation ... and discovered North America sometime around 1000. In Greenland the Norse settlements held on for more than four centuries. Then, abruptly ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

While similar modern devices do work successfully (as seen in the NOVA program "The Vikings"), many have questioned if the Greenland disc was actually used in this way. It is less than three ...