According to Icelandic sagas, 25 Viking ships set sail from Iceland in 985 to establish settlements in Greenland. Their descendants lived there for centuries before suddenly disappearing in the ...

According to the sagas, in 985 CE, Erik convinced some three hundred Vikings in Iceland to go to this new place called ...

Moreover, like Europe today, declining export competitiveness was just one of many problems plaguing the Viking settlers. The final, wretched stages of ... of investment in buildings and equipment.

The Vikings settled Greenland during a period of exceptional ... People are streaming out of Block P, Nuuk's biggest apartment building, which alone houses about one percent of Greenland's population.

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...