Archaeological earthworks inwards East Republic of Iceland in addition to C-14 dating of barley found inwards Viking Age ruins inwards Reykjavík threaten to topple the accepted concern human relationship of Iceland's village inwards the ninth in addition to tenth centuries past times Norse Vikings. Written sources propose the outset settler to larn inwards in Republic of Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson who settled inwards Reykjavík inwards the yr 874. New interrogation suggests the outset people arrived every bit much every bit 100 years earlier.
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| The site was originally discovered past times accident inwards 2003 [Credit: Friðrik Þór] |
The site inwards Stöðvarfjörður is non the outset Viking Age site discovered past times accident. In fact, most of the of import archaeological finds inwards recent years stimulate got been totally accidental or at sites where nobody expected to discovery anything of importance.
Bjarni Einarsson, the archeologist inwards accuse of the dig told the local TV station Stöð 2 that the younger of the 2 houses was built on the ruins of the older structure, which measures every bit much every bit forty meters (130 ft). Both structures are located beneath the "settlement layer", a layer of volcanic tephra that cruel sometime inwards the years 869-73, making both older than the "official" fourth dimension of village which began inwards 874, according to the Icelandic Sagas in addition to the Book of Settlement, medieval sources on the Viking Age in addition to the village of Iceland.
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| The Stöðvarfjörður dig is belike the most of import archaeological dig in Republic of Iceland at introduce [Credit: Friðrik Þór] |
Bjarni told Stöð 2 that C-14 dating indicates the older construction was built soon afterward the yr 800, suggesting permanent village inwards the Eastfjords seventy years before Ingólfur Arnarson arrived inwards Reykjavík.
The nature of these outset settlements remains a mystery, only Bjarni believes they were line-fishing in addition to hunting camps, rather than permanent settlements. "Such camps were mutual inwards Scandinavia," he points out. Local chiefs would mail out teams of workers to constitute camps inwards remote uninhabited areas during summer, where they hunted, fished in addition to produced diverse goods. The army camp inwards Stöðvarfjörður could stimulate got been used to fish, hunt seabirds in addition to seals, every bit good every bit to gain crude from whale blubber in addition to Fe from bog ore. Most Viking era Fe was smelted from bog iron.
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| The archeologist who leads the earthworks at Stöð believes the dig sheds novel low-cal on the origins of Viking colonization of Republic of Iceland [Credit: Friðrik Þór] |
The really advert of the farm Stöð in addition to the fjord Stöðvarfjörður look to back upward this theory: Stöð translates every bit camp, station or base.
Such seasonal camps could stimulate got been used for decades before permanent village began. Bjarni believes they played a fundamental live inwards the village of Iceland: "People would stimulate got come upward hither to piece of employment live of the year, producing goods during summertime to convey dwelling household inwards the fall. They would stimulate got taken these goods home, every bit good every bit information nigh this novel land. Based on this information people would thence stimulate got been able to brand an informed determination to settle hither permanently."
Source: Republic of Iceland Magazine [July 11, 2018]
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