The remnants of a Viking barn still stand at what had been the settlement of Gardar. Ciril Jazbec On the grassy slope of a fjord near the southernmost tip of Greenland stand the ruins of a church ...

Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight. U.S. President Donald Trump has been maneuvering to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know only as a huge ...

Rather research has indicated that at the peak of Norse settlement in Greenland exports of walrus ivory to Europe were high. Erik the Red and the End of the Viking Adventure in Greenland In 1003 ...

In one anecdote, a member of Leif’s crew, Tyrkir the German, found grapes in a forest near their settlement ... looked just like a Viking Age hearth from Brattahlid in Greenland.

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers, has a history of human habitation that stretches back more than 4,000 years.

These epic Viking tales were probably first written ... has spent more than 20 years reconstructing the demise of a Norse settlement on Greenland. In the middle of the 14th century, the colony ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers ... Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract ... Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers ... Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts ...