Some had suggested that L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland could be Vinland, but there is one problem: Despite being the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America, it sits too far north.

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 ...

Replica Viking homes and other items at L'Anse aux Meadows, a Unesco world heritage site in Newfoundland, Canada Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries ...

Much, however, remains a mystery about North America’s earliest known Viking settlement. Scientists have not found evidence that it was in use past 1050, but they do not know exactly when it ...

To see the first Viking settlements in North America—found 500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot there—head to L’Anse Aux Meadows. The Vikings first arrived here from Greenland in ...

A good chunk of their days was spent hunched over, sifting though the dirt in an attempt to confirm a long-held theory that the Viking settlement at L'Anse Aux Meadows, more than 600 kilometres ...

Long-lost North American Viking settlement was in Canada, say archaeologists. Site described in Norse sagas would be only second early European camp identified in the Americas ...

Vikings Once Called North America Home Centuries before Columbus, a small band of Norse people explored the Canadian coast. For now, the only proof is a single settlement. Here’s what’s known about ...

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 ...