Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the remains of a cluster of Norse longhouses, including one of the largest of these structures ever found. The investigations of farmland at Gjellestad, in ...

An aerial shot shows of the site where the Viking longhouse was discovered. NIKU Not far from where a Viking ship was unearthed in Norway three years ago, archaeologists have located one of the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees are ...

Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a Viking longhouse in western Norway. Photo from Møre og Romsdal County Archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of a Viking ...

Just about every American child learns in school that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America--or, more accurately, a small island in the Caribbean--in 1492. What isn’t always taught is that the ...

Viking Age stories often involve modern-day Denmark, the fjords of Norway, the British Isles and Iceland, yet one overlooked stronghold of Viking history lay far north of the Arctic Circle. The sagas ...

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...