The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas Eugene Linden Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer ...

It’s now confirmed that Norse Vikings, known for their seafaring prowess, reached North America a millennium ago, ...

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.

A new study has found that Vikings lived on North American soil exactly 1,000 years ago in the year 1,021 AD, meaning that seafaring Scandinavians accomplished the first known crossing of the Atlantic ...

Pity poor Leif Ericsson. The Viking explorer may well have been the first European to reach the Americas, but it is a certain Genoan sailor who gets all the glory. Thanks to evidence that has until ...

Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...

To say that Christopher Columbus was a latecomer to the Western Hemisphere would be an understatement. By the time he arrived in 1492, the Native Americans had been there for tens of thousands of ...

LELYSTAD, Netherlands (Reuters) - A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail across the Netherlands' IJsselmeer lake on Friday and its stuntman builder hopes to cross the Atlantic later. The 15 ...