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 ...

Vikings had a settlement in North America around one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the ...

After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached what is now Newfoundland, Canada in around A.D. 1000. They built an outpost at L ...

This windswept coastal outpost is the very spot where Norse sailors first settled in North America, the only authenticated Viking site ... open land at the edge of Newfoundland's Great Northern ...