Deseret Evening News | 1897-08-21 | Page 12 | How Island Was Discovered

n w Iceland W Theovered Accor tit g to 1llny Iceland Is nn island in Iho northern ocean discovered by 1rythun J84 S83 11 O A colony col-ony from Detain Is I mild tn liuvo Kotlled tliero In tho beginnluK of the fifth century cen-tury Tho Venerable Dcdo gives n pretty accurate description of the island Wu mot therefore conclude that Iceland win known In tlin Fuventh Century but tho lerlund chronicles go no further back than tho t arrival cf tho Nor egluim They rtlntii thut Kuddodr n fuinoiu Korwiklau pirate was driven on the roiwt of Iceland In bill Ho named lie country buowlaud Ho did not lemnlli long but en his return no extolltd tile country that mm Gnrder buiifiirfn u Swede Pulled Julio around the inland In 861 I anti gave It tho ucmil of Graders Wood In the followhiK Fprlui ho returned re-turned to Norway when ho diFcribul tho country as being pleuaiintmid richly wooded This ncitod rioke uuothtr Swede to undertake another voyage thither nod ho staid there the whole winter Ho dciicrlbed it its n wretched place and because he found n great deal of ico on tile north side ho gave the country the uamo of cloud Tho island was finally wttltil by Ingolfr In 874 within GOvrarn of which dllto Ibo wholo Island vai lulmbltod