Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While ...

not only up into the Greenland walrus-hunting territories but across the Davis Strait to Ellesmere and Baffin islands and south into Labrador. These are areas where the Vikings were exploring and ...

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.

As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

While similar modern devices do work successfully (as seen in the NOVA program "The Vikings"), many have questioned if the Greenland disc was actually used in this way. It is less than three ...

They also share similarities with Viking artefacts found in Greenland and Poland. Initially, researchers thought that the discs were used by local communities as either calendars or as tools to ...

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...

The study’s authors contend that some of the disks display key features that would have used the sun to operate as a compass, sharing similarities with other Viking artifacts originating from ...