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Historien bag navnet:
FLOKE VIKING er opkaldt efter en
nordmand fra Harald Hårfagers tid i 9. århundrede.
Det var Floke, der fandt og navngav Island.
Sakset fra internet vedrørende bosættelserne på Island:
According to Landnamabok
(The icelandic peoples own book of Icelandic history) it was a Swede
with the name Gardard Svarvarsson who discovered Iceland. But the
one who colonized the island was a Norwegian called Floke
Vilgerdsson.
Floke got to Iceland in the year of 815 as a refugee, expelled by
the Norwegian king Harald Herfagre. Harald Herfagre was the first
real king of Norway. He was a very ruthless king who did everything
he could to prevent anyone else from taking power. Among other
things he condemned many hundreds of the noblest families to exile.
In Iceland they saw the chance to start all over again. According to
old Icelandic tales the first major colony of Norwegians and Swedes
in exile arived in Iceland in 874.
The Norwegian Flóki
Vilgerðarson uprooted his farm and family and headed for
Snæland. He navigated with ravens and after some experiments one of
the ravens did not return and Flóki followed its direction and
found the shores of Snæland. His use of ravens gave him the
nickname, Hrafna Flóki (Raven's Flóki), by which he has been known
ever since. He sailed to Vatnsfjörður on the west coast but was
far from being impressed by the enviroment. When he saw icebergs
floating in the fjord he named the island Ísland (Iceland) probably
as much to discourage others from arriving there as anything else.
He then returned to Norway but at some point reconsidered his
position as he did in fact return to Iceland some years later and
settled in the Skagafjörður district on the north coast.
Iceland
Iceland was discovered by accident. From time to time, ships drifted
off their course because of fog or storms and ended up on unknown
shores. Before Iceland was colonised in the 9th C it had been
sighted at least a couple of times by seafarers out off course. The
Norwegian Floke Velgedarsson was the first to search for
Iceland. He had an accurate description of the course that had been
described for him by a merchant that had seen the island. Floke
brought with him three ravens on the ship. These he used as scouts
just as Noa had used his pigeons. One day one raven didn’t return,
which meant that he had found land or at least solid rock to land
on. Floke followed the raven’s direction and found Iceland. He
stayed over the winter with his men and because of the icy storms
raging, he named the new land Iceland.
In 874 two Norwegian brothers, Leif and Ingulf, fled to Iceland
after killing two men. With them they brought their families and
slaves. They settled near Reykjavik and each started a farm of his
own. Soon Leif's slaves became tired of the hard work and organised
an uprising in which Leif was killed. Ingolf hunted the slaves down
and killed them. His farm grew and soon other Norwegians came to
Iceland. Unconfirmed theories claim that Iceland had over 20.000
inhabitants 930 AD.
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