Historian William Short watches and rates depictions of Viking combat in movies and TV shows. He discusses Viking shield formations in "Vikings." He outlines brutal village raid tactics in "The ...

Over 1,000 years ago, when the Vikings sailed to Vinland, now known as Newfoundland, multiple women were among the group, including Freydís Eiríksdóttir. During the expedition, she cemented ...

ST. JOHN'S — A celebrated Swedish-Canadian archeologist who helped unravel the story of the Vikings at the only acknowledged Norse site in North America has died.

They considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology, studied maps, and researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. Finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement ...

One of the main reasons Viking history buffs travel to Newfoundland is to visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site that no other country, regardless of its rich Viking roots, offers.