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men from Norway, settled there permanently. Their example 

 was followed by many others afterwards. 



"It is said that some men were going from Norway to the 

 Foereyjar (Faroes). Some say it was Naddod Viking. They 

 were driven westward into the sea, and there iound a large 

 land. They went up on a high mountain in the eastern fjonls, 

 and looked far and wide for smoke or soma token that the 

 land was inhabited. They saw none. They went back to tin 

 Faroes in the autumn, and when they set sail much snow fell 

 on the mountains, and therefore they called the country 

 Snoeland (Snow land). They praised the land much. The 

 place where they landed is now called Reydarfjall in the 

 Austfjords " (Landnama, i. c. 1). 



Naddod's example was soon followed by others, amongst 

 whom was Gaidar Svavarson, a Swede, who called the island 

 Gardarsholmi. 



" A man called Gaidar Svavarson, of Swedish kin, went in 

 search of Snowland at the advice of a foreknowing (foresighted) 

 mother. He landed east of the eastern Horn. There was a 

 harbour. Gardar sailed round the land, and saw it was an 

 island. He stayed over the winter at Husauik, in Skjalfandi, 

 and built a house there. In the spring, when he was ready to 

 sail, a man called Nattfari with a thrall and a bondmaid were 

 driven off in a boat. They settled in Nattfaravik. Gardar 

 went to Norway, and praised the land greatly. He \\as the 

 father of Uni, the father of Hroar Tungugodi. Thereafter the 

 land was called Gardarsholmi (Gaidar's island) ;^ there was at 

 that time forest from mountain to shore" (Landnama, c. 1). 



The name Iceland was first given to the island by Floki, 1 

 but neither he, Naddod, nor Gardar, settled there. The first 

 settlers were the foster brothers Ingolf and Leif, who with 

 their followers landed about the year 870. 



"The foster brothers made ready a large ship which they 

 owned, and went in search of the land which Hrafna-Floki 

 (Raven-Floki) had discovered, and which was then called 

 Iceland. They found the land and stayed in A-iistfjords, in 

 the southern Alptafjord. The south of the land seemed to 



1 For the story of Floki taking three I on his expedition to Iceland. 

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