Still, Hotel Viking isn't too modern — it's filled with beautiful art from Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, and the wooden furniture and wood paneling add to the hotel's rustic ambiance.

He shared photos from the trip on Instagram on Saturday. In Iceland, they wore Viking outfits, hiked across snowy glaciers, explored ice caves and soaked in the blue lagoon. They also snowmobiled ...

But the only accounts of how and why Vikings journeyed to the New World, not to mention what became of them, are in Icelandic sagas, centuries-old tales that have traditionally vexed scholars ...

Skagafjörður may look stunning and serene, but sagas tell us this was the location of a brutal battle between warring Viking families that would herald the beginning of the end for Iceland's ...