Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

Centuries before modern travelers reached Norway’s Lofoten islands for the scenery, Viking chieftains settled here for fertile soil and rich fishing grounds.

The ancient Vikings certainly had the travel bug. Between the late eighth century and approximately 1050 CE, they roamed the Atlantic in their longships all the way to Newfoundland, Labrador, and ...

Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of ...

If you've browsed a dusty old Viking saga and thought you’d need a full translation or an ancient rune decoder to make sense of it, then you’re not alone. However, on the island of Iceland, something ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient DNA suggesting that Viking Norse people may have arrived in Iceland as early as 810 AD, a ...

A rare toy dating to the Viking Age was found during an archaeological excavation in Iceland. Even though the time period the toy comes from is known by researchers, the animal the figure represents ...