Objects from Viking life, like these drinking horns, are on display at the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik. (Paul Ross) An excellent place to begin is the National Museum of Iceland in ...

What to see: Traces of Viking heritage are all over Iceland—the country even has a Viking trail you can follow—but for a good look, head to the Settlement Museum in downtown Reykjavik.

An extremely rare Viking ‘Thor’s Hammer’ amulet has been discovered in Iceland. In a Facebook post, archaeologists explained that the sandstone amulet was found at a site in Þjórsárdalur ...

Archaeologists in Iceland have discovered what may be a rare Viking Age toy carved out of stone, but it's anyone's guess as to which animal it depicts. The figurine, which experts dated to between ...

I visited Iceland this past August aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 as she made her final calls to Iceland and Norway before retiring to become a floating hotel in Dubai. I did not have any great ...

The Vikings were master explorers, traversing the Atlantic between the late 8th and mid-11th centuries. From Newfoundland to Greenland, their longships carried them across vast seas. Among their ...

VIKING-ERA JAW A female’s jaw dating to the early 900s, with some flesh still attached, floats in a jar filled with light paraffin oil. The jaw belonged to one of Iceland’s earliest colonizers ...

Iceland’s Viking heritage and modern culture shine through its diverse museums. ... The Maritime Museum is on Reykjavik’s waterfront.

Newly Excavated Viking Dwelling May Be Oldest Found in Iceland Archaeologists say the settlement, which may have housed a Norse chieftain, dates to roughly 800 A.D. Alex Fox - Correspondent ...

Stone carving of Viking ship dating back 1,200 years may be oldest picture found in Iceland, and it may help rewrite history, historian says ...