The remnants of a Viking barn still stand at what had been the settlement of Gardar. Ciril Jazbec On the grassy slope of a fjord near the southernmost tip of Greenland stand the ruins of a church ...

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“Journeys were being made from Greenland to North America throughout the entirety of the period of Norse settlement in Greenland,” wrote archaeologists from the University of Iceland, who ...

He spotted a green meadow and named the area Greenland, hoping to entice others to come. From about 985 to 1450, a small population of Vikings farmed and built communities on the island’s ...

The Norse were trading walrus tusks in medieval Europe that have now been traced to the very top of Greenland – well beyond the reach traditionally associated with this seafaring civilization.

Now, a study published in the journal Science Advances has indicated that walrus ivory imported into Europe from Norse settlements in Greenland was harvested from very remote High Arctic hunting ...

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? Newly discovered evidence is upending our understanding of how early settlers made a life on the island — and why they suddenly disappeared ...