SETTLL'Mh'XT OF ICELAND. ~t 1 7 



the ten. They ran away with their women and loose property 

 and the boat. The thralls went to the islands \\liidi they *;>" 

 south-west off the land, and stayed there a while. Ingolt si-nt 

 his thralls, Vifll and Karli, westward along the shore to search 

 for his high-seat pillars. When they came to Hjorleiffehofdi 

 they found Hjorleif dead ; they then returned and told Ingolf 

 these tidings. He was very angry at the slaying of Hjorleif" 

 (Landnama, i. cc. 4-6). 



" Iceland was first settled from Norway in the days of 

 Harald Fairhair, son of Half dan the black. . . . 



" Ingolf was the name of a Northman, of whom it is truly 

 said that he went first from Norway to Iceland, when Harald 

 Fairhair was sixteen years old, and a second time a few winters 

 later. He settled south in Reykjarvik. In that time was 

 Iceland covered with wood between the mountains and the 

 fjord. 



" Then were there Christian men, whom the Northmen 

 call Papa, but afterwards they went away because they would 

 not remain with the heathens, and left behind them Irish 

 books, and croziers and bells, from which it could be seen that 

 they were Irishmen " (Islendingabok, c. i.). 



" At the time when Iceland was discovered and settled from 

 Norway, Adrianus was Pope at Rome, and John, who was the 

 eighth of that name, in the apostolic seat; Louis (Hlodver), son 

 of Louis, Emperor north of the mountains (i.e. the Alps), and 

 Leo, as well as his son Alexander, of Mikligard. Harald 

 Fairhair was King of Norway ; Eirik Eymuudsson of Sweden 

 and his son Bjorn ; Gorm the old in Denmark ; Aelfred (Elfrad) 

 the powerful in England, as well as his son Edward (Jatvard) ; 

 Kjarval in Dublin (Dyflin) ; and Sigurd the powerful, jarl of 

 the Orkneys " (Landnama c. i. part i.). 



From many places in Landnama we find that people from 

 England, Ireland, Scotland, and Flanders, and from different 

 countries of the North, settled in Iceland. 



" Fridleif was from Gautlaiwl on his father's side, while his 

 mother, Bryngerd, was Flemish. . . . Fridleif settled in Iceland. 

 Thord Knapp was a Swede, son of Bjorn of JIaur. He wmt 

 with another man, named Nafarhelgi, to Iceland " (Landnama, 

 c. xi. part iii.). 



"Orlyg was fostered by the holy bishop Patrek (Patrick) 

 in the Hebrides. He desired to go to Iceland, and asked tin- 

 bishop to help him. He gave him timber for a church, and 

 also a plenarium, an iron bell, and consecrated earth, that he 



