As far as European history in North America goes, most people associate the earliest settlers with Christopher Columbus in the 15th century, or maybe the pilgrims coming to New England in the 1600s.

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the ...

Interior of the reconstructed Viking Age chieftain's hall (longhouse) at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Norway. This reconstruction represents the massive high-status farmsteads that defined the ...

Neil Oliver visits three important places associated with the Viking invasion and settlement of Anglo Saxon England. Suitable ...

The name was crowned in irony. Glaciers covered nearly all of Greenland even in Eirik’s time, the last centuries of the Medieval Warm Period (900-1250 C.E.). Still, encouraged by Eirik’s salesy hype, ...

Between the 8th and 11th centuries, Vikings used their longships to travel from Scandinavia to raid, trade and settle in lands far and wide. While the Lindisfarne raid, the settlements on Scottish ...

The Great Heathen Army wasn’t a single unified force, but rather a shifting coalition of warbands whose multi-layered leadership helped it outmanoeuvre the Anglo-Saxons ...

In the Dec. 7 News article, “Cold water thrown on Viking theory,” University at Buffalo professor Jason Briner maintains the Medieval Warm Period was a “patchy”regional phenomenon. But doesn’t the ...