The subject of today’s hilarity will be nicknames from the Viking Age. (I did a post awhile back about some of my favorite royal nicknames.) As with most people living in medieval times, the Norse had no last names (surnames),… Read More
In 986, a Viking named Bjarni Herjólfsson became the first European to spot North America. He was lost, trying to sail from Iceland to Greenland.… Read More
Francisco Vasquez de Coronada "discovered" the Grand Canyon and the Rio Grande in 1540. He was too busy searching (in vain) for gold to pay much attention.