The ruins of a Norse house (Photo: Peter via Wikicommons CC BY-SA 3.0) Norse settlers living in south-western Greenland were able to rely on driftwood and native dwarf woody plants for building material for houses and ships and for heating, an Icelandic archaeologist...
The landscape of the Qassiarsuk region, where the first Europeans settled on Greenland, looks completely un-Arctic and lovely. But appearances are deceptive, as the Vikings also had to learn. After only about 500 years, they disappeared again. Image: Carlo Lukassen...
A walrus rostrum (upper jaw bone) with tusks used in the study to identify the origin of medieval ivory in Europe. Photo: Musée du Mans The mysterious disappearance of Greenland’s Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been due to the depletion of...
Atlantic walrus numbers are massively smaller than those of their larger Pacific relatives. This may be related to the extensive hunting of the animals since the Middle Ages, some scientists suggest. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) Iceland is not exactly associated with...
