Please see the talk page for more information. This article or section appears to contradict itself. History of settlement Pre-Norse settlement Iceland is thus likely the penultimate major land mass to be settled by humans ( New Zealand being the last in the 13th century). Traditionally, the Icelandic Age of Settlement is considered to have lasted from 874 to 930, at which point most of the island had been claimed and Alþingi ( Althingi), the assembly of the Icelandic Commonwealth, was founded at Þingvellir ( Thingvellir). However, these sources are largely unreliable in the details they provide about the settlement, and recent research focuses more heavily on archaeological and genetic evidence. On the basis of Íslendingabók by Ari Þorgilsson, and Landnámabók, histories dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and providing a wealth of detail about the settlement, the years 870 and 874 have traditionally been considered the first years of settlement. Unlike Great Britain and Ireland, Iceland was unsettled land and could be claimed without conflict with existing inhabitants.
The reasons for the migration are uncertain: later in the Middle Ages Icelanders themselves tended to cite civil strife brought about by the ambitions of the Norwegian king Harald I of Norway, but modern historians focus on deeper factors, such as a shortage of arable land in Scandinavia. The settlement of Iceland ( Icelandic: landnámsöld ) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic. For the Norse farmstead in Greenland, see Landnám (Greenland).
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