In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even played.

Explore an abandoned hobbit house in Iceland, built in the traditional Viking-age turf style! This unique and enchanting ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

As history shows. VIKING ... NEIL OLIVER:'Some of the Vikings settled on Iceland, and built farms there. But in time, they headed even farther west.' NEIL OLIVER:And in 1000 A.D., the ...

Árni Magnússon was particularly interested in texts about Icelandic history. He scoured the market ... He developed an interest in the Viking Age and saga literature at an early age, which ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

The Vikings weren’t the most diplomatic group of settlers in history. The famous seafaring ... the seminal Medieval Icelandic literary works to which we owe much of our knowledge of these ...

This interactive museum delves into the history of Iceland, from the Viking age to present day. To tell this story, the museum displays about 2,000 artifacts, in addition to 1,000 photographs.