The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

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Over time, the word viking became ... exploration phase to the settlement phase, and that was not possible. We have to remember that this was in the early days of the Greenland colony, which ...

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, feared and loathed in Europe before they sailed west -- first to Iceland, then Greenland ... From that day the Viking settlement became a target and skirmishes between ...

As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

where a Viking settlement was established in Newfoundland, also around the year 1000. Erikson later became chief of the Vikings on Greenland. Perhaps, rather than Trump’s administration grabbing ...