Gardar Svafarsson & Iceland
The Next person to arrive in Iceland itself, and to stay, albeit for a short time, according to Landnámabók, was Gardar Svafarsson:
“A man called Gardar Svafarsson, of Swedish stock, went out in search of Snowland guided by his mother, who had second sight. He made land east of Eastern Horn where at that time ships could put in. Gardar sailed right round the country and proved it to be an island. He built himself a house at Husavik on Skjalfandi in the north and stayed there over winter. In the spring, after he'd put out to sea, a boat drifted away from his ship with a man called Nattfari aboard, and a slave and a bondwoman. Nattfari settled down there at a place called Nattfaravik. Gardar sailed back to Norway, full of praise for the new land. He was the father of Uni, father of Hroar Tongue-Priest. Afterwards the land was called Gardar's Isle. In those days it was wooded all the way from the mountains right down to the sea.”
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