The fate of Greenland’s Vikings—who never numbered more than 2,500—has intrigued and confounded generations of archaeologists. Those tough seafaring warriors came to one of the world’s ...

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 ...

Warriors often chopped plunder into pieces ... Sutherland thinks that Viking seafarers from Greenland voyaged to the Canadian Arctic to trade with indigenous hunters, exchanging metal knives ...

After sailing to Greenland and then Norway ... Settled and organized though they might have been, the Vikings were also some of the toughest warriors who ever lived. A slighted Norse was not ...

You may think of Vikings as warriors raiding and ransacking Medieval ... suggested that Norsemen who settled on Iceland and Greenland ventured to the High Arctic in the search for valuable walrus ...

When the seafaring Vikings traveled to faraway lands, they brought their system of writing with them, leaving runic inscriptions in places as distant as Greenland. Wherever they went, Vikings ...

Høegh, a powerfully built man with reddish blond hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist and former chief adviser to Greenland's agriculture min­istry.

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 ...