Studies have reaffirmed a centuries-old theory, argued by many historians over time: there was, in fact, a Viking presence in ...

Vikings spread out from Scandinavia and settled in Iceland, which Steinberg describes as “one of the world’s last large inhabitable islands to be inhabited,” in 874. They were led by local chiefs who ...

It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in the Americas. He arrived in modern-day Newfoundland around the year 1000, ...