Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees are ...

The Viking connection is big business for Iceland. While there have been no Viking ship excavations as in Norway or any runestones found as in Sweden, Iceland still has plenty to draw those with an ...

During the Viking Age, a Norse explorer named Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson set out to find a mysterious land rumored to exist far in the North Atlantic. Without maps or compasses, he relied on the sun, ...

The lives of noble women in the Viking world were shaped by politics and logistics, and worlds apart from the lives of ...

Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the wild Rocky Mountains of western Montana. Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the ...

There are no walruses in Iceland, but, at one time, there were hundreds. The timing of the walruses’ disappearance suggests that the population’s loss may be one of the earliest known examples of ...

Icelandic sheep are more than just adorable grazing animals — they’re living links to the island’s Viking past. Their ...