Everything about Ing Lfur Arnarson totally explained
Ingólfur Arnarson is recognized as the first permanent
Nordic settler of
Iceland. According to Landnáma he built his homestead in
Reykjavík in
874. Although
recent archaeological finds in Iceland suggest settlement may have started a little earlier, the date is probably not too far off.
Ari Thorgilsson also claims Ingólfur was the first Nordic settler in Iceland but mentions that "
Papar" - for example
Irish monks and
hermits - had been in the country before the
Norsemen but left because they didn't want to live amongst the newly-arrived
pagans.
Landnáma (written three to four centuries after the settlement) contains a long and obviously legendary story about Ingólfur's settlement. The book claims he left
Norway after becoming involved in a
blood feud. He had heard about a new island which
Gardar Svavarsson,
Floki Vilgerdarson and others had found in the
Atlantic Ocean and with his close friend
Hjörleifur Hródmarsson, he sailed for Iceland. When land was in sight he threw overboard his high seat pillars (a sign of his being a chieftain) and promised to settle where the gods decided to bring them ashore. Two of his slaves then searched the coasts for three years before finding the pillars in the small bay which eventually became Reykjavík.
In the meantime, Hjörleifur had been murdered by his Irish slaves because of his ill-treatment and they in turn had been killed by Ingólfur in the Westman Islands (
Vestmannaeyjar).
Ingólfur is said to settled a large part of the south-western part of Icland but after his settlement nothing is known about him. His son,
Thorsteinn Ingólfsson, was a major chieftain and is said to have founded the first "
þing / thing," or parliament, in Iceland, which became a forerunner of the
Althingi.
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