SS Norse Lady was a cargo ship built by Wood, Skinner and Company of Newcastle upon Tyne to the United Kingdom's standard First World War "War C" design...

The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...

Norse settlements in Greenland were established after 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders' in Icelandic)...

for the history of early Norse Greenland. Those accounts are closer to primary for more contemporaneous accounts of late Norse Greenland. Modern understanding...

Wackiest Ship in the Army SS Lady Anne – cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne" episode of The Twilight Zone SS Andrea I (based on the SS Shieldhall) – ocean...

from Old Norse personal name Ulfr plus Middle English water, influenced in usage by the Old Norse vatn (water or lake). Ulfr is also the Old Norse noun meaning...

medieval period, falling into the rough categories of Scandinavian (Old Norse), Anglo-Saxon (Old English), continental (Frankish, Old High German and...

45°33′33″N 85°59′16″W / 45.559167°N 85.987778°W / 45.559167; -85.987778 SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that...

Erik Thorvaldsson (c. 950 – c. 1003), known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded...

USS Stickleback (SS-415), a Balao-class submarine, was named for the stickleback, a small scaleless fish. Her keel was laid down on 1 March 1944 by the...