Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. Read the full story

The skeletons and skulls belonging to a number of Australian aborigines are set to return to Australia after a request was sent out from the Australian Embassy in Sweden. Read the full story

A chess piece recently discovered at Siglunes, Iceland could explain the origin of the mysterious Uig chessmen associated with the island of Lewis, off Scotland: they could originally have come from Iceland. Read the full story

Iceland’s Thingvellir national park is famous for straddling the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The discovery of a large cavern directly underneath a footpath this week illustrates this geological instability perfectly. Read the full story

Divers have started an operation to salvage dozens of bottles of vintage champagne from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland. The bubbly, which was first discovered in a sunken vessel off the semi-autonomous maritime province of the Aland Islands in July, is thought to be the oldest in the world, having sat on the seabed for more than 200 years. Read the full story

In a very rare event, the body of a dead blue whale has washed up on a beach in North Iceland, causing quite a stir in the scientific community. Read the full story

One of the world’s largest private yachts, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has arrived in Reykjavik Harbour and is expected to berth at the quayside early this evening. Allen’s visit to Iceland is shrouded in secrecy. Read the full story

Danish researchers are about to rewrite the history of the earth, as they uncover traces of multi-cellular life from 2.1 billion years ago. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark (among others) say they have found signs of multi-celled organisms that are far older than any discovered before. Read the full story

A century-and-a-half old bridge has been rediscovered underwater in the Ellidavatn lake near Reykjavik. Read the full story

A hair sample has been used by scientists to recreate a detailed picture of an ancient Greenlander. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen claims to have reconstructed the first detailed ancient human genome, naming the discovery Inuk – the Greenlandic word for man. Read the full story