Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Most of Greenland was covered in ice, so Erik the Red and his followers settled in the few areas with vegetation. The Norse ...

Greenland’s first tourists were Vikings. And the first tour leader was the notorious Erik the Red, who landed near the island’s southern tip with a ragtag group of followers in 982 AD after ...

982 - Greenland discovered by the Norwegian, Erik the Red, who calls his discovery "Greenland" to make it more attractive. In 986 he returns with settlers. 14th-15th Centuries - Norse settlements ...

We know Greenland is mostly made of ice, but 10th-century Icelanders listening to Erik the Red didn’t. Born in Norway, Erik Thorvaldsson lived in Iceland for an estimated 20 years before he was ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A little north and west of Greenland's stormy southern tip, on a steep hillside above an iceberg-clotted fjord first ...

Over the past millennia, Greenland has captivated visitors, bringing everyone from Erik the Red, who founded the first European settlement over a thousand years ago, to the Allied Forces of World ...