Bjarni EinarssonA Viking settlement dating back ... the only smithy within a hall known in Iceland,” said Einarsson, who discovered the longhouse ruins in 2007. Excavations at the site only ...

It’s very Icelandic: fire and ice, water and stone. When the lava flowed at the end of the ninth century, shortly after the Vikings arrived on the island, it was probably the first volcanic ...

In another - the Groenlendinga saga - he heard of a land in the west from an Icelandic trader ... In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern ...