"The Norse were not interested in colonizing North ... "Their real interest was in finding resources that might sustain the new Greenlandic colony," Wallace said. "Vinland was explored because ...

Your support makes all the difference. The findings corroborate with the Norse Sverris Saga, an 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, according to researchers from the Norwegian University ...

Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

The Norse also found it a challenging environment ... and cast doubt on Qassiarsuk’s association with Erik the Red. The ...

The Norse may have been forced to extend their ... Take one part quaint Greenlandic town, complete with fjord and exhilarating mountainous backdrop, mix with maybe four parts grim Soviet-bloc ...

‘The Vanished Settlers of Greenland embeds speculation about the fate – or survival – of the Norse medieval Greenlandic colony in a series of historical contexts, demonstrating the long and deep roots ...

Greenlandic sled dogs can also take travelers ... Exhibitions there focus on early Norse settlements, Inuit ways of transportation, whale oil refineries and the Thule people, who are the ancestors ...

Andu Schiodt Pikilak has dark dashes on her forehead descending into a deep “V” like geese flying in formation, an Inuit tattoo she sees as a rebirth for both her and Greenlandic culture.

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

The excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf buildings are similar to those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 À la pointe de la péninsule ...