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The Age Of Settlement (874 to 930)

Recent archeological findings in the Vestmann island have shown that people of Scandinavian stock had already settled in Iceland as early as 500 CE but most pople consider the age of settlement to start with Ingólfur Árnason and the finding of Reykjavík in 874 as documented in the 12th century manuscript "Landnámabók" (lit. book of settlements). Early settlers where mostly Norwegians fleeing political and religious strife in their home country along with Irishmen of Scandinavian origin fleeing similar conditions in the green isle.


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Christianity (1000)

Christianity was formally adopted in the year 1000 under pressure from Norway, this is actually believed to have happend in 998 or 999 but have been moved to the last year of the century in the Sagas to emphasise the death of the old and the coming of the new. 



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