9th Century
| Year | Date | Event |
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| 825 | Dicuil, an Irish monk refers to fellow monks who spent the summer on an island which they referred to as Thule, far to the north. | |
| 860 | Naddoddr discovers Iceland. He was heading to the Faroe Islands but drifted off course and landed near Reyðarfjörður in Iceland. As he returned to his boat it started to snow and thereby he reputedly named the land Snæland (Snowland). |
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| Garðarr Svavarsson discovers Iceland. Blown from a storm near the Orkney Islands. He circumnavigated Iceland, thus the first to establish that the landmass was an island. He stayed for one winter in Skjálfandi. He praised the new land and called it Garðarshólmi (lit. Garðar's islet). The island was thereafter known so. |
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| 865 | Hrafna-Flóki becomes the first Scandinavian to deliberately sail to Iceland as news of a country in the west reached Norway. When Hrafna-Flóki climbed a mountain in Vatnsfjörður he spotted drift ice in a fjord that inspired the name of the country, Ísland (Iceland). | |
| 874 | Ingólfr Arnarson becomes the first permanent Nordic settler of Iceland. The settlement of Iceland begins. |
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Icelandic History
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