Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

There are many great tales and adventure stories about Iceland. G Adventures details the various sagas they experienced on their trek around Iceland. Learn the accounts of Iceland's past and soak in ...

If you've browsed a dusty old Viking saga and thought you’d need a full translation or an ancient rune decoder to make sense of it, then you’re not alone. However, on the island of Iceland, something ...

“I follow Latin traces from Icelandic manuscripts, but the Latin written material in Iceland has been forgotten. Previous research has focused mostly on texts in Old Norse in Icelandic manuscripts,” ...

—The Icelandic antiquary Torfæus, in his small works Gronlandia and Vinlandia, published in the Latin in 1705, first drew the attention of scholars to the historical element in the Vinland Sagas; and ...

What do the Sagas of the Icelanders and Game of Thrones have in common? What do the Sagas of the Icelanders and Game of Thrones have in common? Dr. Zarka answers this question and explores how the ...

I’d made some of the same assumptions that Fidler once mistakenly made as well. The ABC broadcaster admits early in this collaborative effort with the Australian-Icelandic writer that he had thought ...

The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas Eugene Linden Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer ...

When I travel, I always try to find one to three novels that explain a country’s past and capture its character and values. This novel by Iceland’s Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1955 is that ...

Acker, Paul, trans., 1988. ‘Valla-Ljóts saga. Translated with an Introduction and Notes’. Comparative Criticism: An Annual Journal 10, 207–39. Acker, Paul 1998. Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic ...

The two sagas give similar accounts of Thorfinn’s trip to the New World, but they differ on some significant details about his return to Iceland. In Erik the Red’s saga, Thorfinn moves back to his ...