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As Viking expert Dr Eleanor Barraclough explained on the HistoryExtra podcast, these dates do not tell the whole story. Norse activity in Europe started sooner than AD 793 and continued well after the ...

But while the Norse saw Greenland as their distant outpost, it was never really theirs to keep. By the 15th century, as the Viking Age had faded, Norse settlements on the island had vanished, ...