The Settlement of Iceland

History says that the first people to sail to the Iceland during the years of 800-874 were the Nordic Sailors. Many other stories even claim that the Romans and even the Irish Sailors had discovered and landed in Iceland even much earlier, but the proofs for the same are not available. The sole information source regarding the settlement of Iceland is the book of settlements Landnamabok, which was scripted in the 12th century. The book covers a comprehensive and a detailed account of the initial Iceland dwellers. As per the details covered in the book so far, the first setteler in the Iceland was Ingolfur Arnarson. He shifted with his family at Reykjavik,in 874, which later on came to be known as the capital of the country. Further, then in the years 874 and 930, there were increases in the number of the Viking settlers, who had arrived from the Scandinavia and came here to seize the land in the areas which were inhabitable. In the Landnamabok, the first few chapters claim that the first discovery of the Iceland was discovered from the western Norway. The reasons for the local people leaving Norway were the lesser availability of land in Norway. Perhaps this was the reason that even the young people left and wanted to finally find a country which had plenty of land.
The Settlement of Iceland and Irish Monks- 874-930 AD
Norweig settlement.
Since Iceland was an unclaimed land, it could have been claimed at any point of time, that too without even passing on a word of caution to the local inhabitants. The foremost and the initial geographical document of northern seas, during the 9th century was the composition of an Irish monk known by the name of Dicuil.
He had added his interviews with the Irish priests in it. The book was known by the name of 'De mensura orbis terrae' . These priests, also known as the 'Papas', also made the claims of having being sailed northwards towards Thule. Further, he also claimed that he lived there from the months of February to