AMERICAN VIKINGS: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America. By Martyn Whittock. Pegasus Books. 272 pages. $29.95. Centuries of lively and heroic medieval sagas, first recorded ...

Imagine a dragon-headed ship cutting through the frigid Atlantic waters, its crew scanning the horizon for any sign of land. These weren't just any sailors - they were Vikings, and they were about to ...

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 ...

Who discovered America? The common-sense answer is that the continent was discovered by the remote ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Americans of European descent have traditionally phrased the ...

Popular Swedish actor Peter Stormare (“The Blacklist,” “Swedish Dicks”) is set to direct, produce and star in “American Runestone,” a documentary series shedding light on the role played by Viking ...

Recent findings, highlighted in The Curse of Oak Island series, suggest that Norse explorers may have traveled as far south as Oak Island, Nova Scotia. This significantly expands the known boundaries ...

The findings disrupted the “New World Order” of arrival. Not only did Christopher Columbus not “discover” America, he was far from the first European to set foot in The New World. Vikings adventurers ...

Mike Arbuthnot and Blue Nelson scour North America for evidence of Viking explorers. Pic credit: Science Channel There’s still much to be learned about the Norse presence in Canada and the United ...

Leif Erikson, son of Viking explorer Erik the Red, was many things — an explorer in his own right, he played a starring role in 10th century Norse geopolitics. But he was also a deeply religious man.

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 ...