The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
Norse Settlement of Iceland in the Middle Ages
Norse settlement started there probably around 850 or so it was found to be a favorable terrain for raising animals and also for fishing the colonists were mostly Norwegians with some of them also being migrants resettling from ireland and scotland. There is evidence of a settlement on the eastern coast of iceland facing towards the rest of europe that might date back to about 800 which would put it a lot earlier than scholars had long thought. The major migration into iceland really started around the year 870 and the settlers went mainly to the far western coast in order to hunt walrus for their tusks according to sagas.
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