Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees ...

It dated to around 874 A.D., which is about the time researchers believed that the Vikings settled in Iceland. Based on ...

Archaeologists in Iceland have uncovered the remains of two ancient Viking longhouses that may have been among the island's very first settlements. Arterra / Universal Images Group via Getty ...

Whether they were willing participants in the new settlement isn’t known. One of the reasons we know so much about the Viking Age is through the richly-described and illustrated Icelandic sagas.

Traces of Viking heritage are all over Iceland—the country even has a Viking trail you can follow—but for a good look, head to the Settlement Museum in downtown Reykjavik. Here, ruins of a ...

Recently, though, archaeologists discovered an even older settlement underneath the ... because it provides evidence that Vikings occupied Iceland during the early ninth century, whereas previous ...

Leif, born around 970 CE in Iceland to ... in a forest near their settlement. Leif christened the place Vinland—Land of Wine. Even a land of wine could not hold the Vikings forever.

These dates match known Viking arrival dates in Iceland; the 12th-century "Book of Settlement," which describes Iceland's early settlement days, states that Viking Age explorers came in the 870s.

When the first Viking settlers came to Iceland, legend has it that they switched the name for the island with that of its closest neighbor — a move intended to encourage settlement of ice ...

Viking sagas of transatlantic journeys ... a vital commodity in the treeless landscapes of Greenland and Iceland. Permanent settlement does not seem to have been an objective of these Norse ...

The house was part of a Viking-age settlement buried by a landslide in ... Seyðisfjörður is a town on the eastern coast of Iceland and a roughly 400-mile drive northeast from Reykjavík.

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees are ...