VIKINGS IN ICELAND
Outside of Norway, Viking heritage thrives in Iceland. Ancient mythology, and tales of Thor and Valhalla are very much part of Icelandic folklore and the Icelandic language strongly resembles Old Norse. Among the many Viking settlers in Iceland, three men are credited with influencing the culture in Iceland more than four centuries ago. The Viking Naddodd was one of the first settlers of Iceland. He sailed from Norway and arrived in Iceland somewhere around 825. Like many navigators, he was in search of a di¡erent land, the Faroe Islands, when he happened to find this fantastic shore. Appropriately enough, he named it Snowland. Another early, pivotal settler to Iceland was Garðar Svavarsson, a Viking who owned land in Denmark. Svavarsson, they say, drifted here accidentally, too. A storm pushed his ship far to the north until he reached the eastern coast of Iceland. He circumnavigated the island, becoming the first known person to do so and thus establishing that the landmass was an island. He went ashore at Skjálfandi where he built himself a house and stayed for the winter. Since then, the place located in North Eastern Iceland has been called Húsavík. Iceland was also the birthplace of one of history’s most prolific Vikings, Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red. According to researchers, Erikson sailed o¡ course and landed on the North American continent, where he explored a region he called Vinland. He is generally believed to be the first European to reach the North American continent, hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus.
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