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Show Discovered Iceland When the Scandinavians reached this northern Atlantic island about 850 A. D., they found a small colony of Irish Culdees, an obscure group of religious recluses, already living there. Iceland was named by the Norwegian settler Floki Vilgerdar-son Vilgerdar-son in 866. With other Norwegian noblemen and their dependents, he established himself in the southwestern south-western part of the island. This was the beginning of the wave of Scandinavian immigration which settled Iceland by 930 A. D. In that year the Icelandic Althing was established, es-tablished, which celebrated its , 1,000th anniversary in 1930 as the ! oldest parliament in the world. I |