The map was believed to be the earliest depiction ... There is no doubt whatsoever that the Vikings journeyed to North America in the early 11th century, and made a major camp in northern ...

Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...

Today, it is well known that the Vikings reached the shores of North America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus even set sail. For decades, this reality was not well known outside of a ...

272 pages. $29.95. Centuries of lively and heroic medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, reinforce the belief that Vikings reached North America around the year 1021 A.D. And a considerable ...

Viking sailors landed on the shores of North America nearly half a millennium before Christopher Columbus, new research reveals. Archaeologists from the University of Iceland came to this ...

The program stated that L’Anse aux Meadows is “the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America and the earliest evidence of European settlement in the New World” and as ...

However, the Vikings did not colonize North America on a large scale, at least compared to what Europeans did after 1492. So why didn't the Vikings colonize North America? You may like ...