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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...