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 ...

There's a Viking settlement in Newfoundland and people were living there for 350 years. But it was mainly a station where they repaired ships. It had blacksmiths who are working there, docks and ...

His father was Eric the Red. It is written that Leif Erickson established a settlement in 1,021 A.D. in Newfoundland. The Viking’s struggled with the harsh climate before war with the Native Americans ...

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 ...

On March 15, 1931, the production was on the sealing ship S.S. Viking, shooting additional footage, when it got stuck in ice off the northern Newfoundland coast. The ship had dynamite onboard, and the ...