Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The Viking connection is big business for Iceland. While there ...

An extremely rare Viking ‘Thor’s Hammer’ amulet has been discovered in Iceland. In a Facebook post, archaeologists explained that the sandstone amulet was found at a site in Þjórsárdalur, southern ...

A pebble discovered in Iceland might contain the oldest known picture in the country. The sandstone rock, no larger than a fingertip, was found in Stöð, an ancient settlement on the island’s east ...

When the Vikings discovered Iceland around 1000 A.D., they named it to deceive other travelers in search of a warm, comfortable home. It was a sneaky move, but when have the Vikings ever been known to ...

It might be smaller than Hollywood’s depiction of the hammer of Thor, but the unusual artifact is the first of its kind to be discovered. Archaeologists discovered the Viking Age amulet, known as ...

What neither the 39 chieftains nor the New York Times could have known was that the cleft in the lava was in fact the rapidly expanding no-man’s land between the North American and Eurasian tectonic ...