Greer Jarrett has identified four possible small ports, or “havens,” used by Vikings along the Norwegian coast.

Vikings were masters of the sea—sailors whose longships stitched together a vast web from Greenland to Baghdad, and even reached North America. Archaeologists have long known their start and end ...

Vikings were formidable Scandinavian warriors and sailors who, from around 800 to 1050 CE, raided, traded, and settled throughout northern Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and even as far as North America.

Over 3,100 miles at sea. Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built in the style of those used during the Viking ...

Medieval Solar Compasses May Have Guided Viking Sailors Learn about the collection of medieval stone disks found in Ukraine and why researchers are speculating on their role as solar compasses for ...

W ithout benefit of compass, Viking sailors of the 9th century managed to ply their watery routes of conquest and commerce, navigating by stars at night and by sun during the day. No matter what ...

Vikings were undoubtedly masterful sailors, but even they needed a safe place to rest and evade the hazards of the seas. The pit stops on Viking voyages have mostly been lost to time due to limited ...

Another features threats that might have kept a Viking sailor up at night: ship-destroying whirlpools, threatening whales and the mythical sea-monster known as the Kraken, all about to overpower a ...

Since the discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Canada's Newfoundland more than 50 years ago, most scholars accept that Viking sailors, who explored the seas beginning in the ...

Viking sailors landed on the shores of North America nearly half a millennium before Christopher Columbus, new research reveals. Archaeologists from the University of Iceland came to this ...