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

President-elect Donald Trump’s musings about America controlling Greenland have put this Arctic territory under the spotlight ...

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.

Donald Trump first flagged buying Greenland, whose colonial history spans centuries, during his first term. Yesterday, he ...

Sunrise over a fjord near Tasiusaq on Greenland's remote northwest coast. Greenland’s first tourists were Vikings. And the first tour leader was the notorious Erik the Red, who landed near the ...

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 ...

According to the Norse sagas, Viking mariners sailed westward from Greenland in four major expeditions, searching for timber and other resources. Scouting along the northeast coast of Canada as ...

Scandinavia was already “a culturally fluid, interconnected world” from the height of the Roman empire, she argues, while Viking custom clung on in Greenland into our Tudor period. Ninth ...

GIVERS OF EDUCATIONAL gifts, rejoice: despite the eye-rolls you may receive on Christmas morning, you are part of a long and valuable tradition. In cultures around the world, toys have been used ...

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 ...