A pair of 13th-century Icelandic texts known as the “Vinland Saga” describes the journey of famous Norse explorer Leif Erikson to a land the Vikings called Vinland. Although there’s plenty of poetic ...
Far beyond just a hack-and-slash Viking epic, Vinland Saga is, at its core, a story of finding peace in an age where war reigns supreme. Leif Ericson’s tales of a land untouched by the squabbles of ...
While most people associate Italian explorer Christopher Columbus with the discovery of the giant landmass that we know today as North America, it’s believed that it was actually Vikings who first ...
Jack King is a Senior News Writer at Collider. You can find his other work at GQ and Vulture. Twitter is @jackarking. Apologies in advance. Happy Leif Erikson day, folks — hinga dinga durgen! Okay, ...
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Vikings: Valhalla, the long-awaited spin-off to Amazon Prime's Vikings is streaming on Netflix now. Created by Die Hard's Jeb Stuart, the series continues the Vikings' story into the 11th century and ...
The second season of Vinland Saga is nearly upon us. Following the announcement and teaser trailer released last summer, anime production company Twin Engine has finally unveiled a new look at the ...
More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course of history when he fearlessly embarked on a daring expedition into the unknown, becoming the first European ...
—The Icelandic antiquary Torfæus, in his small works Gronlandia and Vinlandia, published in the Latin in 1705, first drew the attention of scholars to the historical element in the Vinland Sagas; and ...
President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation on Thursday designating October 9 as Leif Erikson Day to honor the Norse explorer who reached North America 500 years before Columbus. The proclamation ...
IT is an act of poetic justice for the civilization which crowds the sea-coasts of Massachusetts, remembering that this region is by general acceptance the Vinland of the early Norse explorers, to ...