The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

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 series portrays Erik as a formidable leader in Greenland, the real story ...

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 remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf buildings are similar to those found in ...

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 ...

the Viking explorer of Greenland. But the arrival of the Norsemen is more closely associated with Thorvald’s brother, Leif, who is honored in the October 9 U.S. national holiday celebrating the ...