Over 1,000 years ago, when the Vikings sailed to Vinland, now known as Newfoundland, multiple women were among the group, […] ...

If we were interested in Vinland [the Viking name for a far-off land they visited, which scholars now believe is eastern Canada in and around Newfoundland], it was the sagas. If we were interested ...

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

The Vikings were marauders ... bay at the end of a great peninsula at the northern tip of what is now Newfoundland. There they built a wayfaring station and a repair depot for their ships.

After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached what is now ...

At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated ...

But in the years to come, other Viking explorers would go even further. Objects dug up in Newfoundland tell us that the Vikings set up a trading camp there, and that makes them the first Europeans ...

Archaeological research at Epaves Bay on the northern edge of Newfoundland exposed the remains ... showing that Vinland housed a permanent Viking settlement. By the time the archeologists weighed ...

"The whole mystique of these Vikings, who were here hundreds of ... retail operations manager for the Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland & Labrador. When to Go: June through early October.