As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

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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.

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation ... of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries—includes sailing directions from Norway to Greenland that rely ...

Vikings are one of history’s great cases of false advertising ... such as Erik the Red (who named his settlement project Greenland to make it sound enticingly lush) and Harald Bluetooth ...