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

When she was only 15, she traveled to Greenland with her father, Thorbjorn, as a Viking settlement was being built there. During their journey, Gudrid was introduced to Leif Erikson, the son of ...

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 ...

Bjarni EinarssonA Viking settlement dating back to 800 AD has ... the Viking who was banished for murder — and went on to found Greenland.

Donald Trump gets Christopher Pyne’s endorsement to take over Greenland. But what of the viking from Greenland who arrived in America more than 1200 years ago?

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 ...

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 ...