Who discovered America? The common-sense answer is that the continent was discovered by the remote ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Americans of European descent have traditionally phrased the ...

Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, another group of fearless explorers had already ...

Replicas of Norse houses from 1,000 years ago inL'anse Aux Meadow, Newfoundland. From the 9th to 11th centuries A.D., Viking explorers ventured out into the northern Atlantic Ocean. Long lasting ...

Mike Arbuthnot and Blue Nelson scour North America for evidence of Viking explorers. Pic credit: Science Channel There’s still much to be learned about the Norse presence in Canada and the United ...

"Driven from their Greenland home by crowded and harsh conditions, a bold group of Vikings set sail in search of freedom and better lands. With incredible luck, skill, and fortitude, they persevered ...

Archaeologists have used wood taxa analysis to distinguish between imported, drift and native wood from five Norse farmsteads on Greenland. Historical records have long suggested that medieval Norse ...

Viking sagas of transatlantic journeys have thrilled people for centuries. Historians are sorting fact from fiction—from accounts of clashes with the First Nations to where the Norse really settled.

“Pathfinder” meets “Gerry” in “Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America,” a striking and virtually wordless story of two Vikings separated from their tribe and left to stumble through the North ...

Union City transformed into a Viking village this weekend as the second annual Erie County Viking Festival wrapped up with a ...

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