During the Viking Age, a Norse explorer named Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson set out to find a mysterious land rumored to exist far in the North Atlantic. Without maps or compasses, he relied on the sun, ...

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On ...