Who Settled Iceland

According to stories written down some 250 years after the event, the country was discovered and settled by Norse people in the Viking Age. The oldest source, Íslendingabók (The Book of the Icelanders), written about 1130, sets the period of settlement at about 870–930 ce.

Who lived in Iceland before the Vikings?

Before the Vikings arrived in Iceland the country had been inhabited by Irish monks but they had since then given up on the isolated and rough terrain and left the country without even so much as a listed name.

Did Vikings settle in Iceland?

A volcanic, cold island in a remote corner of the North Atlantic, Iceland was one of the last countries to truly be discovered: Depending on who you ask, its first settlers were either Irish Christians or Norse Vikings. … And, within 60 years of arrival, the Vikings had claimed much of Iceland.