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 ...

According to Icelandic sagas, 25 Viking ships set sail from Iceland in 985 to establish settlements in Greenland. Their descendants lived there for centuries before suddenly disappearing in the ...

While similar modern devices do work successfully (as seen in the NOVA program "The Vikings"), many have questioned if the Greenland disc was actually used in this way. It is less than three ...

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...

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. The self-governing region of Denmark has been ...