The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows ... and that could rewrite the story of the colonization of North America. Quantities of slag testify to the visitors ...
Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large ...
From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...
Tantalizing theories abound about the first European contact with North America - Phoenicians perhaps ... From that day the Viking settlement became a target and skirmishes between the two ...
Evidence of Viking presence in North America has challenged archaeologists and historians for years. Did the Vikings come to northern Canada nearly 1,000 years ago? Did they later migrate inland?
That’s the description of the landing of the first Europeans on the North ... Vikings’ achievement — a holiday that actually tells us something profound about rebuilding our post-COVID America.