The discovery of cannabis pollen near a Viking settlement in Newfoundland raises the question of whether the Vikings were smoking or eating pot while exploring North America. The researchers also ...
My niche interest is Viking history and culture, which was the reason for my trip to Newfoundland, a land the Vikings called "Vinland." I was bitten by the Viking bug about a minute after my history ...
Learn more about the Vikings, their lifestyle, and where the stereotypical horned helmet originated from.
A new study has pinpointed when Vikings first traveled across the Atlantic to North America: 1021, or almost 500 years ahead of Christopher Columbus. After arriving on their longships, like from ...
NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada - Scientists have known for many years that Vikings — the first Europeans to arrive in North America — settled on Canada’s northern tip of Newfoundland. However, it has thus far ...
(ST. JOHN’S, Canada) — An archaeological discovery has renewed doubts that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover North America. Recent excavations in Newfoundland, off Canada’s east ...
The Vikings inhabited Newfoundland 470 years before Columbus landed in North America, research found. Scientists previously dated a Viking settlement in Canada to the 11th century. But tree-ring ...
Some 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests. The journey would have taken the Vikings, also called the Norse, from ...