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Show Celts Visited Iceland Years Before Norsemen So far as known, when the Northmen North-men visited Iceland In the Ninth century, cen-tury, they found no trace of an aboriginal aborig-inal race. However, the Island had been previously Inhabited by Celts who settled there before 800 A. D. Some Icelandic historians claim that the Celtic colonists were still living on the ': Island when the Scandinavians arrived. But the question Is disputed and the general belief Is that these Celtic settlers had disappeared before be-fore . Iceland was discovered ly the Norsemen In 850. In any event, books, crosiers and other articles found by the early , Scandinavians prove that Irish' monks bad made an attempt to colonize the Island. The real history of Iceland dates from about '870, when large numbers of Norsemen : hegnn ' to settle there owing to ; political disturbances in Scandinavia. Only about one-fourth of Iceland Is Inhabitable and the entire en-tire population Is only about 85,000. Detroit News. V , |