The Viking connection is big business for Iceland. While there have been no Viking ship excavations as in Norway or any runestones found as in Sweden, Iceland still has plenty to draw those with an ...

The Saga Museum brings Iceland's Viking history to life through realistic silicone figures depicting significant moments in Icelandic history. Visitors can immerse themselves in the sagas, listen to ...

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...

Hundreds of years ago, Icelanders entertained one another with Viking sagas — epic, blood-curdling tales about the raiding and pillaging of foreign lands. Today, there are new sagas being told on the ...

The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas Eugene Linden Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer ...

If you've browsed a dusty old Viking saga and thought you’d need a full translation or an ancient rune decoder to make sense of it, then you’re not alone. However, on the island of Iceland, something ...

Scientists have used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1100 years ...

As historian Nancy Marie Brown points out, “[A]sking not ‘Are the sagas true?’ but ‘Are they plausible?’” is a far better barometer for testing the Viking tales’ veracity. Illustration by Meilan Solly ...