From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

According to the sagas, in 985 CE, Erik convinced some three hundred Vikings in Iceland to go to this new place called ...

Trump’s fascination with Greenland is not a new idea. For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations have shaped the island’s history. The Norse, Danes, Nazis, and Americans came to ...

The collapse of the island’s Norse settler society serves as a stark warning about Europe’s potential trajectory. Donald Trump’s warning that the US could invade Greenland inevitably ...

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 ...

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.

The study’s authors contend that some of the disks display key features that would have used the sun to operate as a compass, sharing similarities with other Viking artifacts originating from ...

Viking expertise in naval craftsmanship soon ... which facilitated far-flung trade networks and the colonization of Iceland, Greenland, and America. The knarr drew on similar design principles ...