Aurora also offers two shorter expeditions in 2026: the 17-day Arctic Golden Autumn & Northern Lights itinerary in August and ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by Vikings as solar compasses to navigate ...

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 ...

Olaf Tryggvason was a Norwegian Viking prince forced into exile. His challenging youth made him a formidable warrior who ...

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

They love what Barraclough calls the “soap opera lives” of Norse gods. And they love colorful characters such as Erik the Red (who named his settlement project Greenland to make it sound ...

Mysterious medieval stone disks unearthed in Ukraine were likely used by the Vikings as solar compasses to navigate the seas, ...

These Viking Greenlanders were so renowned that they became the subject of their own saga, Saga of the Greenlanders, which recounts how Erik’s son, Leif Erikson, sailed westward from Greenland and ...