"Vinland Saga" brings the era of the Vikings to the realm of anime. The titular "Vinland" is the name that Viking explorer Leif Erikson gave to North America after reaching its shores, and in the ...

From the eighth to 11th centuries, as Norsemen from Scandinavia conducted raids into ... what drove the Vikings on their global explorations, how Norse scholars today view the Vinland Map, and ...

All the detail about Norse trips to Vinland (as the Norse called North America) comes from two accounts: The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. These epic Viking tales were ...

Over 1,000 years ago, when the Vikings sailed to Vinland, now known as Newfoundland, multiple women were among the group, including Freydís Eiríksdóttir. During the expedition, she cemented ...

claims that Viking adventurers reached American shores hundreds of years before Columbus. It was hardly the first such claim—two Icelandic sagas include tales of Vinland, and a forger could have ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

The Vikings were expert sailors. From fishing and going on raids, they were used to spending ... He called the new country Vinland because it had grape vines. In this area of Canada, in a place ...