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A Viking Network Info-sheet:

by Kristin Axelsdottir

Iceland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Norway, east of  Greenland and north of the British Isles.

Garðarr Svavarsson, a Swedish merchant, played a pivotal role in the discovery and eventual Norse settlement of Iceland during the Viking Age.

Garðarr Svavarsson, a Swedish merchant, played a pivotal role in the discovery and eventual Norse settlement of Iceland during the Viking Age.

Garðarr Svavarsson is considered by many to be the first Scandinavian to live in Iceland, although he is said to have stayed only for one winter.

Biography.

Uni Svavarsson blessed us with an incredible heritage.

The first settler there was Uni Gardarsson, the son of one of the three discoverers of Iceland, Gardar Svavarsson.

It was the last country of  Europe to be settled and its history is therefore not as long and old as the history of all the neigbouring countries. But Icelanders have always loved books and writing and reading is a great part of our culture.

We have many old books or Sagas and two of them tell us the stories about the first settlers. One is called the 'Book of Icelanders' (Islendingabok) and tells us about Icelands history for the first 250 years. It was written by Ari Thorhilsson The Wise in the tenth century.

The other is called 'Book of Settlement' (Landnamabok) and tells us of  those who found Iceland and where they settled.

In his book Ari The Wise mentions Irish monks - or Papar as the Vikings called them - who lived here nearly a century before the f