The collapse of the island's Norse settler society serves as a stark warning about Europe's potential trajectory.

he had no idea his misfortune would spark one of history's greatest expeditions. While trying to reach Greenland, Bjarni ...

Donald Trump first flagged buying Greenland, whose colonial history spans centuries, during his first term. Yesterday, he ...

A Song of Ice and Greenland - The Scandinavians stumbled on Iceland, at first on accident--then, gradually exploring it--and finally intentionally migrating there because despite the clash of glaciers ...

Høegh, a powerfully built man with reddish blond hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist and former chief adviser to Greenland's agriculture min­istry.

Much less is known about Viking navigation ... of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries—includes sailing directions from Norway to Greenland that rely ...

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 ...