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There is little consensus on how to divide Icelandic history. Gunnar's own book A Brief History of Iceland (2010) has 33 chapters with considerable overlap in dates. Jón J. Aðils' 1915 text, Íslandssaga (A History of Iceland) uses ten periods: Landnámsöld (Settlement Age) c. 870–930; Söguöld (Saga Age) 930–1030
This is a timeline of Icelandic history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Iceland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Iceland .
Written sources consider the age of settlement in Iceland to have begun with settlement by Ingólfr Arnarson around 874, for he was the first to sail to Iceland with the purpose of settling the land. Archaeological evidence shows that extensive human settlement of the island indeed began at this time, and "that the whole country was occupied ...
Iceland's best-known classical works of literature are the Icelanders' sagas, prose epics set in Iceland's age of settlement. The most famous of these include Njáls saga , about an epic blood feud, and Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga , describing the discovery and settlement of Greenland and Vinland (modern Newfoundland ).
Memorial at the place of execution of Catholic bishop Jón Arason, in Skálholt in southern Iceland The Icelandic Reformation took place in the middle of the 16th century. Iceland was at this time a territory ruled by Denmark-Norway , and Lutheran religious reform was imposed on the Icelanders by King Christian III of Denmark .
Peasant rebellions, traditionally defined, never occurred in Iceland, even though peasant unrest was fairly common. [16] Slavery was practiced in Iceland from settlement to the early 12th century. Icelandic law allowed individuals guilty of theft or failure to pay debts to be enslaved.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Reykjavík, Iceland. ... Settlement of Iceland. 870–930 . Icelandic Commonwealth. 930–1262
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... This is a list of years in Iceland. See also the timeline of Icelandic history. 9th century