The Saga Museum brings Iceland's Viking history to life through realistic silicone figures depicting significant moments in Icelandic history. Visitors can immerse themselves in the sagas, listen to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The Viking connection is big business for Iceland. While there ...

Adjacent to the actual archeological site is a replica of Erik the Red s house where Leif Erikson was born, Eiriksstadir. Paul Ross Iceland has suddenly become the place to go, and most visitors ...

With a shorter growing season and colder climate than in their homelands, Icelandic Vikings would have needed more laborers to improve the soil -- and as the chieftains' power waned, they would have ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 -- It has taken centuries for the Vikings to shake the stereotype of uncouth marauders of more civilized neighbors and receive their due as intrepid navigators, explorers, traders, ...

As historian Nancy Marie Brown points out, “[A]sking not ‘Are the sagas true?’ but ‘Are they plausible?’” is a far better barometer for testing the Viking tales’ veracity. Illustration by Meilan Solly ...

The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas Eugene Linden Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer ...