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 ...

📜 Viking Expansion: Wine Land - From Greenland, explorers like Bjarni, Freydis, and Leif Erikson--aka "Leif the Lucky"--ventured into Vinland, the very first bit of North America sighted by ...

These became Viking land. Orkney became an important base for Vikings. For hundreds of years, many Scottish islands belonged to Norway - until the Battle of Largs. In 1263 AD, King Haakon of ...

an experienced sailor could tell when land was close. Wood rots and metal rusts away after a thousand years or more in the ground, but some remains show what Viking ships were like. For centuries ...