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The Vikings (and their mice) were the first to reach this idyllic Portuguese islands
To see more Viking articles, click here. Evidence shows Norse seafarers settled the Azores centuries before Portuguese explorers. by Mihai Andrei If you were living in the cold and rugged landscapes of medieval Scandinavia, exploring other places probably sounded like a good idea. Especially if it’s a place like the Azores — an archipelago of nineContinue reading “The Vikings (and their mice) were the first to reach this idyllic Portuguese islands”
Viking Age Iceland: Icelandic climate in the Middle Ages
This is Part 36 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where theContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Icelandic climate in the Middle Ages”
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A Viking axe struck a Newfoundland tree in the year 1021. Here’s how scientists proved it
To see more Viking articles, click here. Hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus, the Norse became the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic and settle in North America. This long-posited theory was finally proven in the 1960s, following an archeological expedition to the site of L’Anse aux Meadows on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland.Continue reading “A Viking axe struck a Newfoundland tree in the year 1021. Here’s how scientists proved it”