New archeological research forces historians to reconsider the story of Iceland's settlement
By Staff |Jul 10 2018
Archeological excavation in East Iceland and C-14 dating of barley found in Viking Age ruins in ReykjavÃk threaten to topple the accepted account of Iceland's settlement in the 9th and 10th centuries by Norse Vikings. Written sources suggest the first settler to arrive in Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson who settled in ReykjavÃk in the year 874. New research suggests the first people arrived as much as 100 years earlier.
Discovered by accident
Archeologists who have been excavating a site at the farm Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður fjord in East Iceland unearthed two large Viking Age longhouses. The two longhouses are very large compared to other Viking Age structures excavated in Iceland and Scandinavia. The site in Stöðvarfjörður was discovered by accident in 2003, and is only now being excavated by archeologists.
http://icelandmag.is/article/new-archeological-research-forces-historians-reconsider-story-icelands-settlement
