Visit the Vikings

Want to visit the Vikings? Viking-era heritage sites, museums, parks, and archaeological sites define a traveler’s arc across the North Atlantic from New England to Newfoundland, Iceland, Greenland, Britain and Scandinavia, even down the Russian riverways to Rome.

Your guide Lynn Noel has spent twenty years visiting these Norse sites by land and sea, as an award-winning author, heritage interpreter, and former research fellow of the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College. Enjoy Lynn’s photos, maps, collected music and artifacts, and true traveler’s tales in a lively and beautifully illustrated digital journey to help you choose the perfect destination for your next Viking vacation.

Interactive map that locates Norse archaological sites (red circles), museums with Viking artifact collections (blue squares), living history replicas and reconstructions (green squares), Viking ship replicas (brown circles), Viking reenactment festivals and events (purple stars) and undocumented "cultural pride" claims of Vikings in the New World. Click each symbol for a photo, web link, and description, or zoom in/out to select a specific region/country.

Voyage with the Vikings from their Scandinavian homelands across the North Atlantic ocean to the New World and up the rivers of Europe to Rome and beyond. This map is a digital guide for the armchair traveler and a reference map for saga scholars and Viking enthusiasts.

Plan a trip to Iceland, Greenland, or Scandinavia to experience Norse living history with medieval reenactors, view excavated Viking longships or sail on replicas, marvel at Viking hoards of artifacts in award-winning museums.

Trace the journeys retold in the sagas, and learn to distinguish authenticated archaeological sites from hopeful hoaxes and cultural pride claims of Vikings in the New World.