About 1,000 years ago, the North Atlantic island of Greenland, the largest island in the world, was colonized by a group of Vikings ruled by the famous Erik the Red. The colonies died out after about 400 years, their inhabitants perhaps victims of...

Five hundred years before Columbus, Vikings led by Leif Eriksson became the first Europeans known to have set foot in North America. Norse sagas and archaeological finds record their explorations and their contacts with the native peoples....

The Vikings (also known as Norse), explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeast fringes of North America, beginning in the 10th century. While this settlement process did not have the lasting effects that later settlements...

WE CLAIM THESE SHORES: NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY An exhibition organized by curators Jeffrey P. Brain and John R. Grimes in consultation with Slow Turtle (Russell Peters), executive director for the Massachusetts Commission on...

James H. Barrett. Contact, Continuity, and Collapse: The Norse Colonization of the North Atlantic. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. Pp. i-xvi + 254. 60.00 [euro]. The increasing interest in Atlantic history has led to a proliferation of works...