My niche interest is Viking history and culture, which was the reason for my trip to Newfoundland, a land the Vikings called "Vinland." I was bitten by the Viking bug about a minute after my history ...

A new study has pinpointed when Vikings first traveled across the Atlantic to North America: 1021, or almost 500 years ahead of Christopher Columbus. After arriving on their longships, like from ...

Greenland was the stepping stone that made the Viking discovery of America possible. After Erik the Red founded the Greenland settlement, his son Leif Erikson used it as the launch point for voyages ...

Learn more about the Vikings, their lifestyle, and where the stereotypical horned helmet originated from.

(ST. JOHN’S, Canada) — An archaeological discovery has renewed doubts that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover North America. Recent excavations in Newfoundland, off Canada’s east ...

NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada - Scientists have known for many years that Vikings — the first Europeans to arrive in North America — settled on Canada’s northern tip of Newfoundland. However, it has thus far ...

The Vikings inhabited Newfoundland 470 years before Columbus landed in North America, research found. Scientists previously dated a Viking settlement in Canada to the 11th century. But tree-ring ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have used satellite imagery to identify a site in Newfoundland that could be the first new Viking site in over 50 years. Satellite imagery, magnetometer surveys, and a preliminary ...

In less than 300 years, the Vikings raided and explored land in at least four continents, spreading out in every direction from Scandinavia to invade and trade with civilizations across Europe and ...