Among their settlements were the Faroe Islands and Iceland ... painting a richer picture of Viking exploration and settlement than traditional history books suggest.” ...

As history shows. VIKING ... NEIL OLIVER:'Some of the Vikings settled on Iceland, and built farms there. But in time, they headed even farther west.' NEIL OLIVER:And in 1000 A.D., the ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Not all of the Viking Things disappeared, though. The Parliament of Iceland - called the Althing - was set up by Vikings and it is still going strong after over a thousand years! It is often ...

This interactive museum delves into the history of Iceland, from the Viking age to present day. To tell this story, the museum displays about 2,000 artifacts, in addition to 1,000 photographs.