Etched into the rock is a crude depiction of a Viking vessel — perhaps the earliest illustration ever encountered on the island, Guðmundsson said. The stone carving, pictured here, depicts a ...

Viking boat graffiti like this record-setting carving are usually "extremely poorly ... in Scandinavia and are often found on fragments of bone, stone and timber, he noted. "We don't know why ...

After all, they’d been working at this Viking-age settlement for five years. But a small animal carving surprised them all. Archaeologists returned to Seyðisfjörður to excavate the ruins of a ...