The collapse of the island's Norse settler society serves as a stark warning about Europe's potential trajectory.
he had no idea his misfortune would spark one of history's greatest expeditions. While trying to reach Greenland, Bjarni ...
A Song of Ice and Greenland - The Scandinavians stumbled on Iceland, at first on accident--then, gradually exploring it--and finally intentionally migrating there because despite the clash of glaciers ...
The Vikings were marauders, feared and loathed in Europe before they sailed west -- first to Iceland, then Greenland. From there they went further still, reaching a small sheltered bay at the end ...
Høegh, a powerfully built man with reddish blond hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist and former chief adviser to Greenland's agriculture min­istry.
This is a gaming piece, and it's walrus ivory, maybe from as far away as Greenland. Along with these fascinating objects the Vikings left ... is suitable for teaching History at KS2 and KS3 ...
5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...
Much less is known about Viking navigation ... of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries—includes sailing directions from Norway to Greenland that rely ...
Replica Viking homes and other items at L'Anse aux Meadows, a Unesco world heritage site in Newfoundland, Canada Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago ...