The name was crowned in irony. Glaciers covered nearly all of Greenland even in Eirik’s time, the last centuries of the Medieval Warm Period (900-1250 C.E.). Still, encouraged by Eirik’s salesy hype, ...

Europeans didn’t return to Greenland until the early 18th century. When they did, they found the ruins of the Viking settlements but no trace of the inhabitants. The fate of Greenland’s Vikings—who ...

The traditional view of Norse explorers, says archaeologist Thomas McGovern, is that they settled Iceland and Greenland to farm at a time when arable land in Scandinavia was in short supply. The ...

For over 400 years, the Vikings thrived on Greenland. Two settlements, one on the southern tip of the island and the other slightly farther up the coast, became home to a small but steady population ...

For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenland after centuries of success. While some experts have suggested that dropping temperatures ...

The Vikings are remembered as fierce fighters, but even these mighty warriors were no match for climate change. Scientists recently found that ice sheet growth and sea level rise led to massive ...

AMHERST, Mass. – One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15 th ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight as U.S. President Donald Trump maneuvers to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know ...

In the Dec. 7 News article, “Cold water thrown on Viking theory,” University at Buffalo professor Jason Briner maintains the Medieval Warm Period was a “patchy”regional phenomenon. But doesn’t the ...

It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in ...