Vikings in America. John Haywood tells the epic story of a small band of Scandinavian explorers who went where no European had gone before, 500 years ahead of the voyages of Columbus... A reconstruction of a Viking church and workshop near the Norse settlement of L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland ABOVE: A scene from the series of Icelandic sagas, short stories and poems called the Flateyjarbók, which includes accounts of Viking voyages to North America. (© Alamy)
