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Tracing Viking Settlers In Iceland
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Fall99/viking.html
From Backdirt, combining archaeological techniques with information from the Icelandic Sagas to study Early Viking Age society.
Time-reckoning in Iceland Before Literacy
http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~thv/time.html
Presented as an effort to remedy the lack of interest in the history of science and archaeoastronomy in Iceland. In the 1991 Clive L.N. Ruggles edited, Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s. Group D Publications, Loughborough, UK: 69-76.
The Viking Age Long-House at Glaumbr Skagafjrdur
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Steinberg/Steinberg.html
Associated archaeological record is difficult to identify on the surface, survey is challenging and settlement pattern studies have been of little help in understanding the Icelandic Viking Age Commonwealth or its documented transition from chiefdom to state.
ingvellir National Park
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1152
UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a justification for inscription.
A Viking Age Farm, Church, and Cemetery at Hrsbr, Mosfell Valley
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/erlandson/erlandson.html
Vikings first settled Iceland about AD 870, building a unique farming and fishing society in the volcanic and glacial landscapes of this large North Atlantic island.