The ship was off by around 300 miles and brought Naddoður to Viking Iceland. Iceland was not Iceland in the ninth century. It ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

“This is what it looked like when the Vikings arrived,” said Guðrún ... They were telling me the story of Iceland’s landscape, and if you counted the smoked lamb, all four main actors ...

Architecture firm Sp(r)int Studio has restored, extended and added polycarbonate roof panels to a 1950s timber structure protecting a Viking-era archaeological site in Iceland. Sp(r)int Studio has ...

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.