A new genetic study revealed distinct Viking origins for the Faroe Islands and Iceland, challenging previous assumptions about the uniformity of Norse settlements in the North Atlantic.

“See, the soil reads like a book,” Steinberg says, standing in a trench on a farm near Glaumbaer that was the site of northern Iceland’s most powerful estate during Viking times. He points ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...

After several more days sailing, it finally beached up on an uninhabited, unexplored shore, here, on Iceland. NEIL OLIVER:'Some of the Vikings settled on Iceland, and built farms there.

5. The Vikings’ travels were recorded in sagas. These stories, written by Christians mostly from Iceland, were a blend of history and mythology. The two main sources on the Norse exploration of ...

Historian Robert Bartlett explains how the Vikings of the 10th Century mixed ... Today, their estates conceal hidden treasures. Iceland is one of the world's most volcanic regions.