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 ...

But the remains of a man found in York could rewrite history altogether. York is famous for Vikings, with the city ... are part of a large-scale study to map how people moving around Europe ...

As its subtitle suggests, “Embers of the Hands” is not a history of early medieval Europe ... although they lived so long ago, the Vikings were people. In the chapter on “Love,” for ...

The Minnesota Vikings have a long history in Eden Prairie: Of their 56 years as an NFL franchise, 36 of those have been anchored in Eden Prairie, where the team has its offices, practice fields ...