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.

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