This more remote part of Iceland offers visitors a deep dive into its fascinating history and authentic culture.

such as the Aðalstræti site in downtown Reykjavík and the one at Vogur in the village of Hafnir which is in Southwest Iceland. Yet, none have offered such new insights into Viking history as th ...

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 ...

Icelandic rituals to appease a volcano continued well after Christianization swept through the island, for example, leading us to rethink what Christianity really meant in that period. Viking ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vikings weren’t the most diplomatic group of settlers in history. The famous seafaring ... the seminal Medieval Icelandic literary works to which we owe much of our knowledge of these ...

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.

From the British Isles to the Norwegian Fjords and Iceland’s rugged coast, Seabourn’s newest Northern Europe itineraries ...

Seabourn Sojourn will embark on captivating voyages through the British Isles, Norwegian Fjords, and Icelandic Coast from May ...