Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...

Photograph by Robert Clark L’Anse aux Meadows on the north of the island of Newfoundland, the only confirmed Viking site in America to date. Photograph by Rolf Hicker/Corbis/Getty Images In ...

All the detail about Norse trips to Vinland (as the Norse called North America) comes from two accounts: The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. These epic Viking tales were ...

Vikings in North America NOVA: Why did they abandon L'Anse aux Meadows? Fitzhugh: Well, I think after a few years of using L'Anse aux Meadows as a staging area, the Vikings simply found it ...

The Vikings used a form of compass to navigate ... land far to the west so he set sail from Greenland and arrived in north western Canada. He called the new country Vinland because it had grape ...

At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated ...

The sportsbook’s current betting odds for the NFC North are even more disrespectful to Minnesota, which is ranked dead last behind the Packers and Bears — teams the Vikings went 4-0 against in ...

The Minnesota Vikings secondary remains a work in progress, as despite a monster haul in free agency, the team has not yet filled the void left from departed starting safety Cam Bynum. The Vikings ...