the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed evenly spaced floor timbers to the ...

Although the original Vikings have long become extinct, their genes can still be found today. People from Norway, Sweden, and ...

Those ships were found on the western side of the ... as well as Norse words and names. The Norse Vikings ventured to Iceland and some then settled in Greenland and Vinland in North America ...

Aboard these ships, northern lords and their restless ... as their exploration of the New World. According to the Norse sagas, Viking mariners sailed westward from Greenland in four major ...

The recent sensational discoveries of Viking ship graves in Norway have captured ... there’s a treasure trove of Norse history already visible and accessible, offering a fascinating glimpse ...

Countless sailing experiments with replica ships continue to confirm the excellence of Viking ship design ... of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland ...