vikings

The Icelandic Sagas and some folklore support today's interesting archeological information. "Viking" was a job description, not a racial marker. And as the sagas recount, it looks like people from all over the place were brought to live in Scandinavia. It is almost a running joke among...

I've mentioned this a few times in the past and here's an MSM article about the topic - there is also a link to the original scientific paper that published the data on the Native American DNA from a "Founding Mother" of Iceland...

This story is being carried by a number of sources, this one was free from NBC news... https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tree-rings-radioactive-carbon-signs-vikings-north-america-rcna3383?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America...

Some people were wondering on some of the recent archeological threads what happens when finds are located on the sites for intended construction projects and since probably 80 percent of the big finds in These Islands (UK, Ireland, even Iceland) as well as mainland Europe tend to be the happy...

I changed the headline because the one on this article didn't make sense but the basic information was much better than the other paper's headline "Norse Code" which was also confusing - Melodi The native Irish population was in centuries of decline before the Vikings came along Scientists...

This new information (from peat samples) totally fits with the hints in the North Sagas as does the Norse area probably not being maintained permanently for 200 years but rather resettled several times and/or used as a seasonal trading base the way the Baffin Island outpost seems to have been...

[If you ignore the academic mumbo-jumbo this is a really interesting article on the Norse Home, I am thinking of getting the book if it isn't too high priced - a lot of academic books are insane when it comes to pricing - Melodi]...

Pictures taken from space "may" indicate a the Vikings went hundreds of miles further into the North American continent from their settlement in Newfoundland, Canada. The link is here. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35935725 A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled...