Sioux Falls Scientists endorse Viking Explorers
for showing that the Vikings got to America first,
but the weather eventually went against their staying.

Viking Explorers

Viking Explorers (2006) - 50 minutes
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Many Scandinavian sagas tell the story of Leif the Lucky and the Land of Grapes, but are these mere boastful yarns of magical heroes, or are they historical fact?

In this exciting program, The History Channel^® investigates the oft-repeated claim that the Vikings landed on America's shores 1,000 years ago. Follow the incredible journey these hardy sailors had to make across the North Atlantic, and go aboard a restored longboat like the one that carried the Vikings to the New world. Noted historians tell the remarkable story of Leif Ericsson and his father, the legendary Eric the Red, and attempt to separate fact from fiction in the sagas of these celebrated heroes.

Featuring a remarkable interview with archaeologist Helge Ingstad, whose landmark discovery of a Viking settlement in North America helped to rewrite history, this is the ultimate insight into the fascinating world of the Viking Explorers.

4-1-16 Possible second Viking site found in Newfoundland
Possible second Viking site found in Newfoundland
Satellite imagery has led archaeologists to what may be the second Viking settlement to have been discovered in North America. Excavations in southern Newfoundland last June yielded preliminary evidence consistent with a roughly 1,000-year-old Norse settlement, investigators announced March 31 in a press release. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham used high-resolution images taken from space to identify a spot where ground disturbances indicated the presence of buried structures. Work at the site, called Point Rosee, revealed remains of turf walls from a Viking-style structure. A small pit next to a boulder and a line of smaller rocks contained pieces of iron ore produced by heating bog iron, metal deposits formed from iron particles carried by rivers into wetlands.

4-1-16 New evidence of Viking life in America?
New evidence of Viking life in America?
A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. It's well known that they reached the tip of the continent more than 1,000 years ago, but the full extent of their exploration has remained a mystery, writes historian Dan Snow.

Viking Explorers

Sioux Falls Scientists endorse Viking Explorers
for showing that the Vikings got to America first,
but the weather eventually went against their staying.