Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While the series portrays Erik as a formidable leader in Greenland, the real story ...

Most of Greenland was covered in ice, so Erik the Red and his followers settled in the few areas with vegetation. The Norse ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?

The Norse, Danes, Nazis, and Americans came to Greenland chasing territory and natural resources, and for military domination of the Arctic. Consider Erik the Red, who migrated from Norway as a ...

982 - Greenland discovered by the Norwegian, Erik the Red, who calls his discovery "Greenland" to make it more attractive. In 986 he returns with settlers. 14th-15th Centuries - Norse settlements ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A little north and west of Greenland's stormy southern tip, on a steep hillside above an iceberg-clotted fjord first ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

Over the past millennia, Greenland has captivated visitors, bringing everyone from Erik the Red, who founded the first European settlement over a thousand years ago, to the Allied Forces of World ...