The Viking ship’s operators claim to have been caught off guard by U.S. Great Lakes pilotage rates is unfounded (“Pilot Costs Make Viking Ship’s Voyage Less Than Clear Sailing,” U.S. News, July 16).

Climbing aboard Barba, a beautiful Jeanneau Sun Fast 37 sailing yacht that has sailed extensively around the North Atlantic Ocean, I know that I’m not on your typical sail boat. Or even a typical ...

I still remember those freezing winters growing up in Røros: a small World Heritage-listed mining town nestled near the Swedish border in the middle of Norway. At age three, I experienced a chilling ...

NEWS BRIEF Vikings—not the folks at the U.S. Bank Stadium—probably didn’t travel to Minnesota during the time of Leif Eriksson. But they’re trying to now. Academics have long dismissed the “discovery” ...

(CBS) -- In about a month, a modern-day version of a Viking ship will leave Norway for a 3,000-mile trip to arrive in Chicago on July 27 in time for the Tall Ships Festival, reports WBBM's Steve ...

In Northwestern Spain, the small village of Catoria along the Ulla river is home to 3,500 people, but on the first Sunday of every August, it is invaded by Vikings. The tradition has been alive in the ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - School teacher turned Viking ship captain Carsten Hvid knows the marauding sailors whose paths he is retracing would probably have waited out the poor weather rather than accept ...