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 ...

According to the Norse sagas, written around the 13th century, the voyages to North America occurred circa A.D. 1000. Album (Facts vs. fiction: How the real Vikings compared to the brutal ...

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 ...

All the detail about Norse trips to Vinland (as the Norse called North America) comes from two accounts: The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. These epic Viking tales were ...

However, they weren't the first Europeans to make the voyage to North America. After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached what is ...